Chapter 941: If you want to get rich, build roads first
In the last one month of twists and turns, Xu Qing, Xiao Ye, Xiao Ruxue and Su Qian, plus the three and four guards of 4,000 people, wiped out more than half of the den of thieves.
A large amount of trophies were looted, the second most important thing was silver, the most important thing was food.
To put it bluntly, many of these bandits are farmers who cannot survive. After being frightened by bandits, they also became bandits based on the principle of joining if they can't be beaten.
And in fact, the life of bandits is not easy. In order not to be exterminated by the local government soldiers, they have to pay a lot of tribute to the local officials to ensure the survival of the mountain stronghold.
What is most important to these farmers-turned-bandits?
Of course food is the most important!
With this kind of thinking, most of the good things grabbed were exchanged for food.
Moreover, it is useless to have too much money. If there is too much money, it will be taken away by the officials behind them.
So just like this, there were more and more bandits in Weizhou, farmers became poorer and poorer, and officials became richer and richer.
Weizhou is a border state, a battlefield that was destroyed by wars in the past. Being sent here to serve as an official is actually not much different from being exiled. There is basically no hope of promotion.
Waiting for retirement peacefully is the career path of Weizhou officials like them throughout their lives.
Since there is no hope of promotion in this place no matter how hard you work, why not make a fortune in this last moment?
Thus, an industrial chain of collusion between officials and bandits was formed.
Xu Qing did not really kill these bandits. After executing several bandit leaders, the remaining gangsters were sentenced according to the seriousness of their crimes.
In fact, most of the bandits have not done many bad things, that is, they have redistributed the land so that they can return to rural life. There is no way that Weizhou's population is not large. If you want to restore productivity, it will not work without enough population.
Those who committed crimes were imprisoned in the nearest prison, waiting to be punished.
Collusion between officials and bandits is common. As long as these bandits and bandits are given some benefits, it is not difficult to get out of prison. But this time it is different. They were captured by two emperors and two princes.
What does this belong to?
This is an imperial crime!
No matter how much money I collect, I don’t dare to let it go!
Su Qian can now be said to have shown her prowess. After practicing martial arts for more than ten years, at this moment, she finally showed her side of the heroine to the fullest.
No, this is not a heroine, this is a female general!
The news that two emperors and two princes teamed up to suppress bandits naturally spread throughout Weizhou.
At this moment, it can be said that all officials in Weizhou are in danger.
You know, they have a lot of dealings with these bandits and bandits, and there is a lot of evidence in the hands of the bandits. Once these bandits are wiped out, it is likely that the evidence of their collusion will be seized together with them. Now they have time to be liquidated.
The risk!
It would be fine if one or two new officials come. These old officials who have been blessed in the local area for many years have enough confidence to drag them down or let them die of illness in office.
But this time there was not only a new governor, but also two emperors and two princes. The governor was also the father-in-law of one of the princes.
It can be said that if one of these people dies, their Weizhou will be filled with blood.
As a result, these Weizhou officials, big and small, are now just shivering and do not dare to raise their heads at all.
After going around in circles for a month, Xu Qing and his party finally stepped into the gate of Weizhou City.
The prince's palace and the emperor's palace have not yet been built, so they can only live in a big house as a family, with lower standards for the time being.
It will take at least a few months for the palace and the palace to be completed. Xu Qing's palace of the Han Dynasty will be completed a little faster, and it will take more than a month.
The key is that no one thought at the beginning that it would change from one prince to two princes and two emperors, and that three more mansions would be built.
We had to spread out our limited manpower and build four at the same time.
Fortunately, the imperial court has allocated enough funds. As long as the money is enough, these people will definitely work hard.
Originally, local officials were still able to take advantage of the situation, but now it seems that the owners of the four mansions have personally come to supervise the work, making it impossible for them to take advantage of the situation.
They just have to work hard.
In fact, what most people don't know is that it was actually three princes who came.
But the state of Chu does not need to worry about what kind of house the prince of Zhao lives in. Xu Qing will pay for the residence of the prince of Zhao himself.
There is no way, the promise of a big house must be fulfilled eventually.
Although the big house was given to Shijin as an exception, it also had a back garden martial arts arena and other places, but the level of luxury was still far behind that of a real palace.
But it is more than enough for a father and son.
After the group has temporarily settled down, they can begin to govern Weizhou.
It can be said that the reason why Weizhou is getting poorer and poorer is not entirely caused by the war. The war is just one of the less important reasons.
Weizhou is located on the border, and the control of the imperial court is relatively relaxed. Although officials have little hope of promotion, they are given great autonomy.
The governor is basically the same as the local emperor. As long as he doesn't offend the border troops, there's nothing to worry about.
So a series of operations in Weizhou began. They could manipulate various funds allocated by the imperial court and corrupt most of them.
A lot of money has been spent even on the repair of official roads, so the roads here are becoming more and more bumpy.
However, the war more than ten years ago gave Weizhou officials, large and small, an excuse to say that it was severely damaged by the war and the money was not enough to rebuild Weizhou, etc.
So the problem before Xu Qing suddenly became clear.
The plan to build the first phase of Weizhou can be divided into two parts.
First, rectify the administration of officials.
Each of these officials who have been sucking blood in Weizhou for many years is like a fattened pig. If nothing happens on weekdays, they can continue to eat and drink, but now the butcher with a knife has arrived.
Xu Qing could completely use the name of rectifying the official system to start the primitive accumulation of capital again, but this time he changed from a bandit to a corrupt official.
Second, if you want to be rich, build roads first.
It can be said that businessmen are chasing profits, and the excuse that it is unlucky to go here because of the war is just a trick to fool people.
Even if the Chu State went to war with the grassland, there would still be merchants risking their lives to sell their goods to the grassland.
Why do this?
Because the money given is a lot!
There are no caravans passing through Weizhou now. A large part of the reason is that the roads here are too difficult!
Several carriages were scattered in their convoy, and the road conditions here can be imagined.
If you want to build a commercial city, flat and wide roads are essential.