Liu Che put down these paintings and memorials by Chen Xu.
Deceiving the common people has always been what the ruling class is best at.
Although Liu Che doesn't like to use these despicable methods to deceive the people.
But Liu Che also had to admit that Chen Xu's method was indeed the most effective way to deceive people into Huaihua.
Although Chen Xu's leaflets were so exaggerated that Liu Che thought this was a different world.
But in fact, it is this kind of exaggerated propaganda and intuitive description that can inspire people the most.
Although the people are not stupid, it is unlikely that they will believe it.
But there will always be people who, after seeing these flyers, can’t help but wonder: Is this true?
The greatest advantage and disadvantage of human beings is curiosity.
Once curiosity arises, there will basically always be people who can't help but want to see the truth.
Moreover, the people as a group are smart, but individuals are ignorant.
That's why it is said that the eyes of the people are sharp, and any lie that the rulers whitewash or dress up will never be able to hide it from the eyes of the people.
However, individuals in this group are extremely easy to be deceived and incited.
Don’t you see, even in another two thousand years, all the countries on earth will still adopt ignorance of the people as a national policy?
It's just that everyone has learned to be smart and know how to package lies and deception under a lot of glamorous and cool coats.
Let the people think that they are the masters of the country.
However, actually...
Well, generally when people are asked to work hard and pay money, they can barely be called 'masters'.
Apart from that, aren’t the East and the West the same thing?!
As for now, many people don't even bother to package it.
Directly tell the people and people that you should obey the leadership of us noble officials and nobles.
Chen Xu used such exaggerated means to fool and deceive the people. It was not a big deal at all.
If you are exhausted, you will be discussed and discussed.
But Liu Che flipped through these leaflets and shook his head.
Those who treat the country's reputation as a child's play will eventually turn the country's reputation into a child's play.
But Liu Che was a little reluctant to give up on Chen Xu's great idea.
The new land of Huaihua and the Korean Peninsula is so vast, even now because of the climate. The land that can be developed and the population that can be supported there are not as exaggerated as in later generations.
But at the very least, this place can support 10 million people. Isn’t that an exaggeration?
But now, including the local army, officials, immigrants who settled in the area, and the population that has poured in due to the influx of gold, there are only 700,000 to 800,000 Han people!
I would also like to thank Liu Wu, King of Liang, for this.
He alone sent more than 300,000 military officials, craftsmen, and immigrants there.
The development level of the entire region may not even be one thousandth.
In this vast black land and vast plains, large tracts of land are completely barbaric.
This is simply a crime!
Even if you scatter some beans in these places, you don’t know how much you will harvest in a year!
To speed up development, population is essential.
But now, the potential of the Han Dynasty's rangers and scoundrels has almost been tapped.
If you want to continue to immigrate to the local area, you can only wait for a wave of gold rush to get rich in Huaihua and let them come back to show off their wealth. Only then can we continue to usher in a new immigration peak.
In this way, it will be at least next year, or even the year after that.
More importantly, the immigrants driven by the gold rush wave are only those who have been gold rushers in the past and are engaged in production and construction. It is estimated that there will be very few. Moreover, when they succeed in gold rush, they are likely to choose to return to the inland and live with the wealth gained from gold rush.
The life of a rich man.
The number of people willing to stay there may be less than 30%.
However, local construction and land reclamation require a large number of people, especially hard-working farmers who are good at farming.
As long as farmers arrive locally and have their own houses, land, wives and children, they will not leave.
Therefore, from this perspective, Chen Xu's method is actually the best method at present.
"Why don't we test it out first... let some legends out..." Liu Che held his cheek and thought about it.
Even if this matter is to be done, it cannot be done in the name of the imperial court, let alone by official means.
At most, these leaflets are allowed to flow into the market for some unclear reasons, and then people can fan the flames and build momentum.
"Kingly way..." Liu Che called his confidant eunuch to him and gave an order.
The latter then nodded and left.
Then, that day, a song was inexplicably sung by many children in Chang'an.
"Huaihua County, given by God, beats roe deer with sticks and ladles to scoop out fish, and pheasants fly into the rice pot..." This catchy song is heard in the streets and alleys, and it is hard to forget after listening to it.
And to a certain extent, this is indeed the reality on the ground.
In Guanzhong, it is not that there are no people serving in Huaihua. At least half of the civil servants in the major reclamation regiments, Huyi Army Yamen and Andong Protectorate are from Guanzhong.
Naturally, these people also wrote many letters back to their hometowns in the past, describing some of the local conditions.
Why are the mountains and forests full of rabbits, pheasants, wild boars, roe deer and other wild animals, yet they are not afraid of people?
In some settlement groups, it did happen that pheasants flew into the barracks and became dinner.
But before, these were anecdotes spread within a small area.
Now, driven by this song, Guanzhong has a basic understanding of the richness of Huaihua.
Many people were surprised and asked those who had relatives and brothers on duty in Huaihua about the truth, and then received a positive answer.
"Oh, is Huaihua really so rich?" Someone scratched his head and thought in his heart.
But the people of Guanzhong have always been self-respecting, especially the farmers in Guanzhong. Nowadays, their lives are basically getting along. Therefore, even if there are such discussions and legends, the farmers just treat them as after-dinner talk.
This is normal. Unless they are desperate, Chinese farmers will not easily leave their hometown and venture into unknown distant places.
Because they cannot afford to risk failure.
They need to be responsible for their parents, elders, wives and children.
Of course, during this process, some pictures also quietly leaked onto the market.
Although these exaggerated pictures are very touching, many farmers are also very moved.
They all thought in their hearts: Is the land in Huaihua really so fertile? Can it really grow such large amounts of corn?
But in the end, it’s just thinking.
Today, when life is relatively stable, except for some young people who have enough to eat and the whole family is not hungry, people with families and families will never choose to leave their hometown and venture into unknown distant places.
What's more, the household registration of Guanzhong people is very valuable.
What if after I leave, my identity as a Guanzhong citizen is blackmailed by the government, who will I cry to?
But on the other hand, life in Guanzhong is indeed too boring. Besides working, the people always have to find something to talk about to pass the time.
In this way, these legends and pictures about humanization were slowly discussed throughout Guanzhong.
Moreover, as time went by, these legends and talk spread beyond Hangu and Wuguan to Guandong and Shu counties.
In Kanto, the situation is different.
Even in a prosperous place like the Three Rivers region (Hanoi, Ha Dong, and Henan), where the world is rich, there are still many landless tenants.
Not to mention the further areas south of the vast river and on both sides of the Yangtze River.
Previously, when the gold trend came, it only took away local heroes and various energetic social figures who were full of ideas about getting rich overnight.
The local peasant class and tenant groups were slightly affected.
After all, although gold is good, it cannot be eaten as food.
Everyone is miserable, and even the travel expenses may not be enough. Even if you want to make a fortune, you may starve to death before you get there.
Nowadays, the legends and various pictures coming from Guanzhong make these people unable to hold back any longer.
Especially those landless tenants and poor people.
Their life in their hometown is extremely difficult.
All year round, I farmed diligently and finally managed to get some food and got a good harvest. But in the end, after deducting the land tax and land rent to the landlord, I actually owed the landlord hundreds or even thousands of money.
money.
However, the official corvee service was held once every four years, and it was about to be his turn again.
If I go to serve next year, I will be wasted for at least a year. But if I don't go, I will have to pay more.
But where can I find someone with so much money to make even more money?
In the past, their only choice would have been to sell their children, daughters, wives, or even themselves.
But now they have one more choice to choose Huaihua!
The imperial court's order to recruit immigrants was posted under the cloth in the pavilion. The pavilion chief, Li Zheng and You Jiao all preached the imperial policy over and over again.
Those who signed up to go to Huaihua for reclamation were required to join a certain reclamation group and work with others for three to five years. During this period, the court provided food, accommodation, expenses, tools and seeds.
After the expiration of the term, based on performance and work results, each household will be granted land ranging from 100 to 300 acres.
In the past, there were many neighbors whose lives were worse than mine. They couldn't live any longer, so they signed up and went to Huaihua to cultivate land under the organization of the imperial court last year.
The landowners and knowledgeable elders in the village used to look at the people who signed up to follow the officials to cultivate the local areas, and sighed: "I think the land of Huaihua has been barren and cold since ancient times. I'm afraid these children will have to live there again."
I can’t come back either…”
The landowners, gentry and elders read many books and had broad knowledge.
Therefore, many other tenants who were barely surviving at that time stopped after hearing this.
Yes!
It's such a far away place, I don't know if I can come back alive!
At that time, Qin Shihuang established land in Hetao and immigrated to Sanyue, recruiting millions of people. However, very few returned to their hometown alive in the end.
Many people died in foreign lands, and their bones could not return to their hometown.
When there is evidence from previous cases, many people give up decisively.
Continue to stay in your hometown, farm for the landlords and gentry, pay taxes and serve the court.
But now, legends about caring and extremely wealthy people are coming one after another.
Moreover, there are pictures and the truth!
"The stick beats the roe deer and the gourd scoops out the fish, and the pheasant flies into the rice pot..." This catchy and popular song soon aroused the admiration of countless people.
Everyone was drooling and fantasizing about that prosperous land.
Many people touched their flat bellies, imagining themselves eating delicious pheasants and munching plump roe deer. Tonight, they only drank half a bowl of wheat porridge. There was nothing they could do. There were several children at home, and they were all growing.
It is not easy to feed them physically!
Do you want to take this risk and take a gamble?
Some are hesitant, while others are determined.
Especially those young people who are the second sons in the family and have not yet married.
All year round, I am half full and half hungry, and sometimes, all day long, I can only drink some gruel and eat some beans to satisfy my hunger.
They don't want to live like this.
Especially after seeing the pictures on the crumpled white paper, they were even more itchy.
They couldn't help but pour their longings and hopes for future life into that legendary fertile and fertile land, and regarded it as their own utopia and paradise.
Since ancient times, ordinary people have been easy to fool.
No matter how exaggerated or bizarre the lies are, they are all credible in the eyes of these people who live in hardship, work hard all day long, and have almost no tomorrow or future.
Otherwise, there would not have been so many people in history who were instigated by one or two slogans and deceived by unrealistic religious lies to rise up.
In the eyes of these people who have given up hope for the future, any beautiful utopia and legend are worthy of belief.
Because apart from that, they have no spiritual sustenance.
"Anyway, the imperial court will be responsible for my food and accommodation along the way. When I get there, it is said that they will also arrange accommodation..." These people were making their own little calculations in their hearts.
If the imperial court pays for all the expenses on the road and the food and lodging when you arrive, then there is no need to worry about the travel expenses.
The solution of this problem has further eliminated people's fear of the unknown world in the distance.
"It's just that in the first few years, you have to farm for the imperial court, and basically all the income has to be handed over..."
But what's the problem?
They didn't have much savings in their hometown.
They even have to pay debts to landlords every year!
Now that I have gone to Huaihua, I worked for the imperial court for the first few years, which seems to be nothing.
So, the only question becomes: What to do with all the debt I owe?
In the Han Dynasty, repaying debts is a matter of course.
No matter who it is, don’t even think about defaulting on your debt!
At this time, the imperial court announced that the debts owed by the settlers could be guaranteed by the government and repaid three years later.
This policy immediately eliminated these people's last worries.
In the next few years, countless tenant farmers and poor people from Guandong signed up to go to Huaihua.
As a result, the landowners and gentry in many places were at a loss. After the panic, they had to hurriedly improve the treatment of their tenants, reduce debts, and land rents. Some people even suddenly changed from iron cocks to generous "good people" during the holidays.
, and would also distribute clothing, wine and meat to the tenants, in order to stabilize these long-term meal tickets.
Of course, these are all things for later.
Now, Liu Che still doesn't know the impact of this test he made.
For Liu Che now, the most important thing at the moment is undoubtedly the entry of the South Vietnamese King Zhao Tuo into the court.
We must take advantage of this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to transform South Vietnam from a communist separatist regime into a local force controlled by Chang'an in terms of law, diplomacy and military.
It is best to slowly turn it into a vassal state with different surnames similar to Changsha State in the past.
How to achieve this goal is undoubtedly a test of Liu Che's political skills and decisiveness. (To be continued.)
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