Chapter five hundred and thirty-three lofty ideals
In the tenth year of Wuxing, the Wu army swept across the Western Regions.
The heroes who had previously failed in the war for hegemony in the Central Plains all established vassal states in the vast areas of the Western Regions with the support of Emperor Wu Leihu.
This move stunned the powerful people of the Central Plains. I didn't expect Emperor Wu to have such an operation?
The ambitious people are ready to take action. The failed heroes in the past can establish a vassal and establish a country in the vast area of the Western Region, and they can do the same.
At this time, the imperial propaganda agency also began to operate.
The Wu Empire was already at its peak of martial arts, and the imperial propaganda agency only needed a little guidance to achieve its goals.
Imperial newspapers, official newspapers, storytellers in teahouses and restaurants, and folk art performances all promoted information about the Western Regions.
The Western Region is not the barren land imagined by the officials and people. It is a transit point connecting Eastern and Western civilizations. It is not only vast and rich in products, but also has a large number of oases and plains suitable for living.
For example, the world-famous Li Clan, whose family occupies almost five thousand miles of land in the Western Regions, of which Li Yuan naturally occupies the largest territory, and his two outstanding sons, Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin, also allocate land with a radius of thousands of miles as territory.
Such news spread wantonly, and ordinary officials and people naturally only treated it as an anecdote for entertainment, but some powerful families were greatly shocked.
What's going on with the Li family? Who among the well-informed powerful people in the family doesn't know?
Let's not talk about Li Yuan's ability. It is evident that he has become the most powerful among the three powerful families in the North under Yang Guang's suppression.
The eldest son had outstanding ability in building construction and was greatly loved by Li Yuan. He established the heir apparent early and was truly the next generation leader of the Li clan.
But his second son, Shimin, was not an easy man either. With Buddhist support behind him, he became famous early on. As the commander-in-chief of the Li clan during the previous chaos, his strength should not be underestimated.
Anyone who is not a fool knows that no matter whether the Li family is in power or not, there will eventually be an unfavorable situation in which the two sons will compete for supremacy, and a bloody conflict will most likely occur.
But now the situation is different. The Li clan created a new situation in the Western Regions. Not only did Li Yuan control a vast area of three thousand miles, but also Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin controlled a territory of a thousand miles. Although the Li clan was completely moved outside the Western Regions,
But the ending is quite good.
The Western Region is not a barbaric land. It is a transit point on the Silk Road. At the same time, the land is vast and rich in natural resources. It is also the foundation of the king's hegemony.
Not to mention, the Dugu Clan and the Yuwen Clan also established their foundations in the Western Regions, occupying vassal states with a radius of three thousand miles or five thousand miles, and successfully became the vassal kings of the Wu Empire.
This kind of news is definitely a great stimulus to powerful people from aristocratic families who are equally powerful and powerful, making them feel itchy and envious.
Princes, generals and prime ministers would rather have the seed!
How can the feeling of being a minister be as good as the feeling of being the master of one's own country?
Even though when you arrive in the Western Regions, you still need to start from scratch and start fighting again, but for the powerful families with a lot of resources in their hands, this is nothing at all.
Not to mention, Emperor Wu Leihu was quite generous. He did not just ignore a group of frustrated heroes by driving them to the Western Regions to establish a vassal state. The subsequent continuous supply of resources was not ambiguous at all.
News came from the Imperial Palace in the Eastern Capital that Emperor Wu encouraged the world's heroes to conquer the outside world and establish a vassal state to shield the Wu Empire from foreign threats. He would certainly support and reward him at all costs.
The news spread among the big family circles, attracting some ambitious people who were ready to take action.
Of course, more powerful families want to compete in the court of the Wu Empire and become one of the most powerful families in the Wu Empire.
It's a pity that Lei Hu won't give them a chance.
The territory outside the Central Plains is vast enough to accommodate many ambitious people!
Red period all over the world!
With the current productivity and technology, it is not difficult to do this.
When ambitious guys grow up, Lei Hu naturally doesn't mind sending them out to fight. As for those who are unwilling to go out and want to toil in the Central Plains, then they should be sent to labor camps.
With the three great clans and a group of frustrated heroes establishing a foothold in the Western Region and establishing large and small vassal states, the internal pressure in the Guanzhong and Heluo lands of Great Wu suddenly relaxed.
The clan clan is the clan clan, the Li clan, the Dugu clan and the Yuwen clan are all trying their best. The clansmen and servants of each family, including the surrendered vassals, etc., add up to no less than 200,000!
What is the concept of 200,000? The total population of the prosperous counties in the Central Plains is only this, which shows the profound background of the clan.
In this way, the three great clans all left thousands of people from their tribes to continue to serve in Da Wu, as a means of communication between Da Wu and the vassal state they established.
While Emperor Wu turned a blind eye, a large amount of grain, grass, supplies and weapons arrived in the Western Regions, and many poor people were encouraged to follow him.
Such a large-scale migration of people and materials once caused fluctuations in food prices in Guanzhong and Heluo. Fortunately, Leihu was well prepared and quickly mobilized Jiangdong's grain reserves to move northward, quickly stabilizing food prices and catching a few who dared to hoard food and sell it at high prices.
businessmen went to labor camps for ten years.
It is no joke that Lei Hu has been running Jiangdong for twenty years. Jiangdong's wealth is definitely far beyond the imagination of the Central Plains powerful.
Not to mention that it is just a temporary fluctuation in food prices, it is not a problem for Jiangdong to supply the whole country with food for three years. It is obvious that some forces have underestimated Lei Hu's strength.
With the departure of the three powerful men and the frustrated heroes, the atmosphere in the entire Guanzhong and Heluo lands has become much more relaxed, and the pressure in the court has also been reduced.
Next, we have to deal with Qi Wang, the fifth surname!
Lei Hu didn't care about this. This was a world of high martial arts. Everything was done by force. No matter how influential the Five Surnames and Seven Hopes were, they could only kneel before the sharp military front.
By the tenth year of Wuxing, the Central Plains had recovered from the previous wars, and both agricultural production and commercial trade had developed greatly.
It took five years for Lei Hu to order his officials to conduct a nationwide census. Due to the rapid end of the war, the total population of the entire Wu Empire in the Central Plains reached about 30 million.
Compared with the population of nearly 50 million during the heyday of the Sui Dynasty, the population was reduced by almost half. This shows how much harm the war has done to the people.
This does not include the rapid growth of the population in Jiangdong. The stable environment for more than 20 years has caused the population of Jiangdong to explode. By the tenth year of Wuxing, it had reached an astonishing 20 million.
In other words, the population of the entire Central Plains region is only a little over 10 million!
Of course, the millions of people who were taken away by the three great lords of the North and a group of frustrated heroes were not included. Since these people followed the frustrated heroes, they were naturally not pure Wu people and could not count.
among demographics.
Although the people in the Central Plains, Guanzhong and Heluo suffered serious losses, and there were barren fields everywhere. It would take a lot of time and energy to restore the old outlook, but it was also good for the Wu court. There were fewer people to implement the New Deal.
The resistance is much smaller.
In order to avoid resistance and interference from local powerful people, we still use military training to promote national literacy campaigns and at the same time popularize the most basic martial arts training methods.
The strength of the aristocratic families in this era is quite astonishing, especially since they have a monopoly on knowledge. The so-called difficulty in returning a noble son from a poor family is the result of their monopoly on knowledge. Lei Hu has long broken these unspoken rules in Jiangdong, and naturally he will not let them
The aristocratic family has a complete grasp of the knowledge inheritance of a place and the path to advancement.
Coupled with the organization of the Production and Construction Corps, the utilization rate of local manpower is maximized, which separates ordinary people from local aristocratic families and slowly weakens the influence of local aristocratic families.
The results of these things can be seen in a short period of time. Jiangdong has provided a steady stream of talents, and the imperial court has the most powerful military power in its hands. There is no need to worry about the rebound of the power of local aristocratic families.
In fact, Lei Hu wished that they would do something excessive and then take the opportunity to exile all of their clan to the Western Regions.
He doesn't like the deep-rooted local families, but he should like the gang of heroes who have successfully established a solid foundation in the Western Region and established vassal states.
These are all large-scale matters. Although Lei Hu pays attention to them, he does not spend too much attention on them. There is a mature administrative supervision system under his command, so there is no need for him to do everything personally.
He has never forgotten that what he pursues is the state of everyone being like a dragon. Everything is people-oriented, and everything else is to serve this.
Of course, his idea will definitely not be recognized by the mainstream world in Central Plains, and the so-called mainstream world naturally refers to the circle of powerful families.
They hope that the people will be as ignorant as possible, and as weak as possible, so that they can easily obtain the greatest benefits, and their descendants will be superior to others.
How can this be?
Not to mention that there are no eternal dynasties and forces in this world, and the so-called thousand-year-old family cannot withstand the passage of time. Lei Hu will never allow such a situation to occur.
He wants to make the Central Plains the center of the world, and while he is in power, he can let the whole world take a different path, and there will no longer be the hidden danger of feudal dynasties changing. Even if there are changes in the future, because everyone is like a dragon, he can easily
Recover quickly and stand at the top of the world quickly.
During the twenty years in Jiangdong, Lei Hu has built a complete training system. As long as he is still there and the Wu Empire is still there, such systems and decisions will not stop, allowing all the children of China to
All the people have reached the standard of being like a dragon, thereby promoting the physical evolution of the entire ethnic group.
In a world where the energy of heaven and earth is extremely active, it goes without saying what it means to have a higher level of physical fitness for the entire ethnic group.
As long as the living environment does not undergo sudden drastic changes and the physical fitness of the ethnic group has evolved to a higher level, various masters will continue to appear and surpass other human ethnic groups with overall advantages.
Lei Hu even had some vague speculation that if the physical fitness of the entire Chinese ethnic group was to be comprehensively improved and evolved, and that it could also occupy the mainstream of this world, the entire world might be upgraded and evolve to a more advanced world.