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Chapter 61 Dream Country

The mountain scriptures were trapped, and when the imperial edict was issued, there was no room for repentance. The Sichuanese's grain was basically accumulated in Jiangnan, which was not a grain-deficient area.

The imperial court came to a unified price of 28 cents. Most of them ate the batch of grain from Wang Hua's hands, transported and stored it, and mentioned the cost of two cents. If they were transported to the sales place, the transportation cost, the retailer's profit, plus taxation, even if they sold it from the store, the cost of at least five cents would be increased.

If it is sold now, the large families will be better, after all, they have made a lot of summer grain. But eighteen small and medium-sized families may lose all their money. Besides, can their own stores sell so much food? This is because the court is a little greedy. If it reaches twenty-five cents, they will not even cry.

Therefore, only hope is that after the imperial court has been put out, Wang Hua's 3,000 stones will be able to return to the Tang Dynasty without knowing that the year of the monkey and horses will not know that the year of the horse and month of the horse will not be able to return to the Tang Dynasty. The court will no longer dare to release grain. At that time, the grain in their hands will still dominate. However, the trap will be deeper. In addition to the 350,000 stones of grain, Wang Hua's 5 million stones of grain, and there are three batches of nearly 10 million grains afterwards, which is enough for the Tang Dynasty to maintain the shortage of grain until the summer harvest. When the summer harvest is reached, the Oceania autumn harvest will continue. The price of grain will never be able to turn over. On the contrary, they have stored for a long time, consumed losses, managed expenses, and moved funds, and the cost of funds being reduced. Moreover, the new grain has become old grain, but its value is falling. Even if Wang Hua did not take action for the second time, they themselves collapsed.

But the second move required waiting for the opportunity, and Wang Hua now focused on the population.

The first few groups of people received Qinzhou. Wang Hua was very honest and escorted all the way, providing food, accommodation and clothes. After passing Lingnan, the weather was only hot but not cold. He received Qinzhou and according to their expertise, he immediately arranged work and even provided simple houses. Then he asked them to write a letter to their relatives and friends to reassure their relatives and friends.

The people could not imagine anything else. The man had no relatives and friends, but most of them wrote by people who asked Wang Hua to arrange to read, and they all told him the situation. Of course, it was like entering heaven, and the letter praised it as a paradise.

The letter was sent away or delivered to various places by fast horse.

The letter also spread. After all, most people had doubts. But after seeing the letter, they heard that there was a serious shortage of people here, so they had something to do when they came. And when they arrived in Daozhou, someone would escort and provide food all the way to Qinzhou. Later, it was changed to Yongzhou. The food matter was settled, and more people were pulled out, but it was still the man who had been tempered by several months of wind and waves. So they mentioned Yongzhou and Tanzhou. Finally, Yuezhou, Jiangling, and Ezhou were added, and a small warehouse and gathering point were added in the prefectures along the way to provide people with food and gather refugees. Some ships were transferred to the river and went upstream along the Xiangjiang River to reduce the delay time. They even used sea boats to carry the people south from Jiangling Ezhou.

After hearing this news, more people were moved, and some tenants began to quietly escape from their master's house and headed south.

This is not considered over-the-counter. The court originally encouraged the people to move to Kuan Township, not to mention refugees and fleeing households. Even good people, the court also supported them to go south to reduce the pressure of insufficient arable land in the Central Plains. Therefore, no official dared to interfere, even Zong Chuke and others. He did not dare to use this matter to impeach Wang Hua.

But at this time, Wang Hua began to take action. First, someone in the immigration said, for example, it is good to go to Qinzhou, but I am afraid that Wang Hua would change a bad official after leaving Qinzhou. Many fugitives were worried when they heard this, but when they came here, they couldn't turn back, and they looked anxious.

At this time, this person said again, it is actually better to go to a dream country. Everyone is very surprised. What kind of dream country is so attractive to ask?

I don't know, but he has a cousin or a good friend. Anyway, he has this person. He was led to this country by his friend and wrote a letter back half a year later. He also sent back a hundred wedding money, saying that he was very good, and he was wild and wild, and he could get as much land as he wanted. When he went to the local government, he would provide them with new houses, clothes, farm tools and seeds. Anyway, everything was ready, just bring two hands and two feet. That person didn't have two hands and two feet? Unless the disability mark was disability, he quietly took his family over. But this kid was unkind and forgot his cousin. Brother, he did not give him the address.

And many people believed or doubted.

So more people talked to him.

When more people were paying attention, a person suddenly ran over, hugged the person, saying that he had suffered a lot. Then he performed an opera. The person said that the person was his cousin or friend, and answered one-on-one. The family took him over, and the person asked why he didn't bring him, his friend or cousin. So he went back to Zhongyuan to find this person. But he heard that he fled to Qinzhou again. So he complained, can Qinzhou go? Don't you know that Wang Envoy had only been in Qinzhou for more than a year and then what should he do?

I didn't expect you to look for me and take me away. If you can't leave, that's to go abroad, you have to leave quietly even if you leave. Moreover, there are shortages of people in Qinzhou, so Wang Hua will let them go? I'll make arrangements to ensure that your family can leave smoothly.

When I answered this lecture, everyone around me heard it, so someone asked weakly if I could take me away.

So he walked along the way, with snowballs rolling. When he arrived at Qinjiang, the visitor said, "It's time for us to leave." At night, a boat was ordered to hide in the cabin, and then hung up a flag with the word "king". Who dared to check Wang Hua's ship? When he arrived at Qinzhou Bay, he boarded a large ship that broke down in Qinzhou Bay, and said openly that there was this place, but Wang Hua managed it. It was not that they were not allowed to come to Qinzhou, and there were too many people coming, and even Qinzhou could not arrange it. Moreover, Wang Hua would leave a year later, so it could not guarantee that they would have a good life for their lives. But the new place was better than Qinzhou, and they immediately took out new clothes and changed them.

Some people were also suspicious, but in this vast sea, they shouted to whom. Ships packed people and left immediately.

As for the people on the sea boat, it was easier to help, and then used various excuses to replenish the supply in Jiangzhou, Chizhou, Suzhou, and Mingzhou on the sea, Wenzhou and Quanzhou, and transfer people to the people. Those who are willing to leave will replenish enough supply from Quanzhou and leave the Tang Dynasty directly. It is even more secret.

What else? From winter to April, especially the chaos in spring, the people who flock to Qinzhou are incredible. Qinzhou cannot eat, and once the population is saturated, it is not a good thing. The wages are compressed and the people wandering, the negative effects are very serious. Therefore, we must always keep at the point where there is a slight shortage of population, but there is too much shortage of population in the early stage.

In six months, Wang Huayi... In one way, he transferred more than 170,000 Yuan of the Wang family in Dayuan, and the population of Zhoubu, and the Tang people in Oceania reached more than 200,000. Therefore, he released the slave hunting team again. Not only did he start from the local indigenous people, but he actually didn't have to do it. Seeing the benefits, many indigenous people automatically joined. More people started from the country. Now there are more people and more powerful. With sharp weapons, hundreds of sea boats stopped, even the local government ignored them, and thousands of soldiers armed to the teeth, and openly captured people from a small village and a village.

In summer, the envoy finally drifted to the Tang Dynasty and handed over a letter to protest.

Li Xian was very surprised. Who did this? It was not clear that it was a normal phenomenon to be accused of people everywhere. On one hand, people fled. But Li Xian still knew the difference between the middle. What he lacked was not good people, but slaves. He tried it a little and let the envoy settle down.

By June, the population controlled by Oceania expanded to more than 1.9 million. In fact, by this time, Oceania could produce 30 million stones of grain by the second year. Moreover, the population is still increasing.

But after April, the momentum finally weakened. After all, the food prices were stable. The money problem was also resolved, and the summer harvest was just around the corner. But many people were heading south until May came, and because of the hot weather, Chiang finally stopped.

But more people still flock to Qinzhou. After all, it is a dream country and a foreign country, and they have doubts in their hearts.

By October, Qinzhou accepted more than 17,000 people. At this time, officials from various counties in Qinzhou were a little worried that the labor problem was solved and even workers who repaired the city walls were small. But the people were still flocking to Qinzhou, what should I do?

Wang Huayixiao said, "Do your serious things."

I have thought of it for a long time and wanted to do it, but unfortunately there is no way to do it without the people.

This is water conservancy, not ordinary water conservancy. Qinzhou has dense rivers. In addition to the largest river Qin River, there are also Nanliu River, Maoling Water, Feng Shui and other rivers. In later generations, these rivers were good things, but they are bad things now.

Unlike the Central Plains rivers, these rivers are usually better, but when they encounter heavy rains, they will cause mountain torrents, which will destroy all the low-lying areas. In Qinzhou, the northeast and northwest are mountains, the north and west are hills, the middle is low-shed land, the basin and the river valley alluvial plains, the terrain is flat, the east is also a low-shed area, and the south is low-shed sea hill land. The new city is this terrain, and there are plain areas, especially the Qinjiang Triangle area, where the land is very fertile. That is, starting from the middle, they are suitable for farming. Why are there fewer people in such a large arable place?

It is precisely because of the fear of mountain torrents that the places suitable for planting have become no-man's land, swamps and mudflats. People ran to the mountains to live together, so they were called Xidong. In the past, officials also saw that, but they had no financial resources and no manpower to manage them. For example, what can 10,000 people in Qinzhou do? Moreover, the first thing to do in water conservancy is to expand rivers and allow water to flow into the sea quickly to reduce disasters. How to expand? Moreover, most of the two sides are mountainous areas unless they have the ability to create the world of Pangu.

But this small problem is no longer a problem for Wang Hua.

In November, some workshops needed more manpower because of preparing New Year's goods. Wang Hua transferred 10,000 people to go there. But more people came and more than ten thousand people could arrange them, but there were still people coming here one after another, which seemed to be more than in November.

So keep fine-tuning, and other people will not distribute it, and labor will be exchanged for supplies.

Adjust it to various rivers, take advantage of the shallow water, dig the rivers, and encounter hilly areas, and use explosives to explode them. Dig deep and wide the rivers, place the dug silt on both sides of the river, make a dike, and enclose one mudflat.

And someone took out the black and oily soil for them to show them, and said that labor and things are given to you now, which is secondary. In the future, the areas surrounded by these circles will be distributed to you for farming for free. They will also be brought to the homes of local farmers to see their living standards.

The common people belong to the vulnerable group, but it does not mean that they are fools. When they hear and see, they immediately understand what is right. Moreover, the fields are forever and the workmanship is good. What if the workshop goes bankrupt? So they are full of energy, even if Wang Hua doesn't use supplies to change his work, he may not weaken his enthusiasm.

Now all the officials in Qinzhou saw it. If the water conservancy project is completed, it would be fake to say that one million people have been placed in the circle, but there is no problem to settle more than one hundred thousand people. In addition, the population of Qinzhou now has. Think about it, how many people are there in Guizhou and Jiaozhou?

Everyone is full of passion and is full of enthusiasm when walking.

Even the people could see it, how could other Jing County officials not see it? They were jealous, but they had no choice. They had no money, no one, and no explosives. They connected each other, went to Qinzhou together, found Wang Hua, and said shamelessly: "Governor Wang, your Qinzhou has developed and the people have become rich, but it has caused us to suffer."

Wang Hua knew their purpose, so he pretended not to know and asked: "Dear envoys, I have nowhere to go. I have something to say, how can you suffer?"

"Your Qinzhou is now better, but the people in our prefectures and counties are still very poor, and the people are unstable. If this continues, there may be troubles. Now when we are walking on the street, the people say that we are useless and are still holding a knife in our hands to gesture to us, which makes us unable to sleep even without peace of mind. We are afraid of not seeing the sun tomorrow."

"Dear envoys, you will be jealous of me. If you want me to help me, you will want me to help me. Don't say so seriously."

Cough! Cough! A dry cough sounded.

"Dear envoys, it's not that I don't help. After all, it's all for the Tang Dynasty. Qinzhou is the place of the Tang Dynasty, and your prefectures and counties are also the place of the Tang Dynasty. I came to Qinzhou not for political achievements, but for pilot projects, using this point to drive the entire Lingnan construction. So it doesn't matter if you have something to say, but don't hide it from it."

The dozen or so officials looked very embarrassed, and the governor of Luzhou said: "Mainly, can you support your water conservancy, and we have some support for our prefectures and counties."

In all surrounding prefectures and counties, the terrain of Luzhou is the strangest. Qinzhou Bay is from Qinzhou, but both sides are from Luzhou, and there is no land connection between them. Now no one cares about the sea area, otherwise all the sea areas where Qinzhou goes to sea are under the jurisdiction of Luzhou. If Luzhou seals the sea surface, Qinzhou will face big problems.

Of course, if you give him courage, Luzhou officials dare not.

Wang Hua said: "The development of water conservancy is a good thing that benefits the country and the people, especially the reclaimed fields, which can provide a large amount of arable land for each state."

One end is called yes.

"But you" want to ask for it. How much supplies does every Junli River cost to Dao Hongyou'er? I bought it. And the land that was reclaimed is for farming. The population problem is not big, and a large number of refugees have flocked to you. At that time, we can give it part of it. But what should you do if these refugees are resettled, seeds and farm tools, and food for a long harvest season? Don't look at me. Qinzhou has money. It takes money to build new cities, settle the people, and build water conservancy. This is not the main thing. The money from the two avenues is also allocated from above, and these two avenues are even a bottomless pit. I don't believe it, I'll show you the account book.

Not only is it not enough, but it is also lacking, and it does not include all basic projects and grain used for labor. Wang Hua took out free of charge. The main reason is that the tax and salt income of the Maritime Bureau were handed over to the court. The agricultural tax was exempted for one year and the commercial tax was quite large. However, in order to encourage the recommendation of the people, the commercial tax was deliberately lowered. The biggest source was the sale of the two shops in the market. However, all the current expenditures in Qinzhou could not be maintained.

But it doesn't matter. With more people, business is more developed, and business tax increases. Besides, only one of the two markets has been opened. There is still one. It is not open. I am preparing to take action next year. Wang Hua still holds thousands of acres of land in his hand and has not moved. The income is recovered, which is enough to make up for all expenditures.

But no officials knew this inside story very well. Eyes are jealous, but they did use money to make money. But how much money do they have?

But Wang Hua let go and said, "I can support it, but I must plan it in a unified way. Also, if I support it, the money can only be taken out of my private pocket. If anyone of you is greedy, don't blame me for using this edict."

As he said that, he took out Li Xian's edict, with six words on it, and the matter was urgently handled.

If Wang Hua dares to embezzle his personal money, and the money is used to benefit the country and the people, Wang Hua will use this vague right to kill them, which is not considered an offense. Do you really treat Wang Hua as a governor of the Xiazhou?

In fact, the officials of each state also felt a little sweaty and thought to myself, I said, how could a minister come to the state to be the governor? It turns out that the real power is here.

After dispelling their greed, Wang Huacai discussed with them that the river dredging cannot be diffused in sections or not, or it will be diffused far away when kneeling, or even the entire river. The main ones are the Nanliu River in Luzhou and Lianzhou, the Zuoxi Youxi and Yushui in Yaozhou and Pazhou. The main roads of Yushui and Duni River in the upper reaches. Wang Hua disagreed with anything and could not agree. The action was that the water conservancy project in the entire Lijiang River Basin was small unless the state operated, and the state operated it, and it would not be completed in one or two years.

But even so, it is a big project, and the real benefits it brings to the states are hard to imagine. Everyone left with satisfaction.

In fact, they don’t look for Wang Hua, and Wang Hua still wants to find them.

Whether it is firecrackers, canned food, or sugar, they are technical words and will be leaked sooner or later. Now some people imitate canned food, but unfortunately, one important factor is boiled in boiling water. The two Wang families kept it secret and failed in the end. But this confidentiality will not last long. Besides, the wharf will never catch up with Guangzhou. Although it radiates to many states and counties in the southwest, they are all backward and small-capital states. Guangzhou is doing business in the Central Plains. Therefore, Qinzhou must develop a foundation, and only from Qinzhou to the surrounding states becomes rich and has a large population. In this way, although it cannot catch up with Guangzhou, it can still develop.

Because of this, among the two roads, the road to Yongzhou was built very wide to see if this influence could be radiated to the Xiangjiang River Basin.

Therefore, not only does Qinzhou have to be rich, but there are many people, but also many people in the surrounding states. Industry is unlikely. Only by building water conservancy and snatching out the fields of fat from the flood mouth.

So in the next few months, twenty million people came, but they were scattered to various prefectures and counties, and soon disappeared. However, the people's cultivation was always limited, and the fields enclosed were very fast. Therefore, there was not enough people to continue to shout. However, this time the disaster was not a state of Qinzhou.

Seeing that no one had cultivated the fields, people from other prefectures and counties came quietly and picked up the farm tools. Seeing this, officials from all prefectures and counties shyly sent their subordinates to inform them and promised you to farm. But they had to go to the county government to make a note.

This problem is even more serious because the surrounding area is wider. It is just that it has nothing to do with Wang Hua, and the officials of each state are not Wang Hua, so other state officials are not afraid.

First, he wrote a letter to protest, and then turned over the dirty things behind his butt.

After seeing these sounds in Chang'an court, the monarch and ministers did not speak for a long time. Wang Hua made a lot of noise this time, and he received everyone from Jiangling and Ezhou. It seemed that he also received a lot of people. Why is the storm getting bigger and bigger?

Later, an official from the Ministry of Revenue pointed out the reason and said, "Congratulations to Your Majesty."

So many people have land to plant, which has brought a lot of benefits to the court in a year. But everyone's hearts are also lit up, and I'm afraid Wang Hua will bleed again this time.

Not only was it a heavy bleeding, including the people transferred to Oceania, the cost of more than 1.6 million guan. But at this point, Wang Hua stopped. Because the population of Qinzhou reached more than 190,000, it was in a mild state and did not require much labor for the time being. So the settlements and food that welcomed the people everywhere were cancelled, and the weather was hot. The customs of this group of refugees also temporarily stopped.

Although it cost money, Wang Hua was very happy. Because if there was no such opportunity, it would be difficult to transfer more than 200,000 people. Although he asked his subordinates to encourage the people, he said that Oceania is a dream country, but it is not an exaggeration to call it a country based on its current population and output.

Li Xuejun once asked him a question, since that is the case, it is better to be more secretive, why pay so much to the Taiyuan Wang family?

That's one million and three million guan. How much can I do with so much money? It turns out that consolidating several porcelain kilns with tens of thousands of guan a year, and at most, the income of more than one hundred thousand guan a year has made the Zheng family jealous of it.

Wang Hua replied that the accounts cannot be settled like this. Without the help of the Wang family, these 50,000 people would not be able to transport them out. The minimum number of people transported out was reduced by 40,000. How much profit would the 40,000 people bring when they arrive in Oceania? In addition, with the additional 40,000 people, how many slaves can be safely controlled? How much income is this?

Oceania is the base. If Oceania did not have it, could it be what it calls for today’s wind and rain?

But today, Wang Hua has the confidence to build it into a real country.

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