After seeing Yang Yu leave, Heifu and Zhang Han put down their hands, and after glancing at each other, their eyes were a little complicated.

"Shaorong thinks that the king is doing this, why?" On the way back, Heifu asked Zhang Han.

"It's because of the land, and there are not enough acres of ownerless land in the inner county."

Zhang Han is from Guanzhong, and as the director in charge of civil engineering, he has more or less been exposed to some acres and household registration information when he was in Jiujiang County, so he can see it more clearly.

"From the eleventh year of Wang to order the old general Wang to attack and begin, Qin Wusui did not send troops to the east, so far there have been four years of ten, there are battles every year, every year there are soldiers beheaded and captured the city, and meritorious service is rewarded. The ownerless fields in Guanzhong were divided a few years ago, and even the marginal Lin Ze has opened up a lot of nobles for the five countries to migrate to the past. From the battle to destroy Wei, the land rewarded by Sergeant Guan began to be distributed to the border counties. For example, I am obviously from Xiayang, but the land was assigned to Ji County, Longxi. ”

"The counties of Shandong are even more so, Yingchuan, Sanchuan, Hedong, Hanoi, Nanyang and other counties, there are already many people and little land, and now the soldiers of those places have to open up the new fields even from Taiyuan, Yanmen, and Shanggu."

Nanjun is not much better, the county has a population of one million, but the fields are only more than 10 million mu, like Jiangling, Ying, Yan County, the three counties have the largest population, accounting for one-third of Nanjun, there is no surplus land, can only find a way from Yiling and other counties farther away.

Heifu secretly calculated that in this year, the Chinese population was about 30 million, and the cultivated land area of the country was about 300 million mu (Qin mu). It stands to reason that a household of five people and a household of 100 acres is completely sufficient. But don't forget, most of the land is concentrated in the hands of a few noble lords.

And Qin's military merit system, while swallowing the Six Kingdoms, is also devouring Qin's own land, creating an endless gap!

Although new land is opened up every year, there are more new military landlords, and the demand is far greater than the supply. As a result, the Central Plains, where the land was already a little tight, became even more stretched, and there was even a situation where many counties had no land to reward meritorious soldiers.

Faith, the treasure of the country, the government's credit, more important than Jiuding. The land promised by the government cannot be broken, otherwise, the foundation of the two powerful countries of military merit and famous land house will collapse overnight.

In this case, Qin Wangzheng had three options.

The first is to increase the development of the inner county, turn all the woodlands and hunting grounds into cultivated land, and let the meritorious soldiers open up the wasteland in their hometowns.

In the past decade or so, the King of Qin has done the same, repeatedly reiterating Shang Ying's order to reclaim grass and open up wasteland, ordering counties to continue to open up land. Unfortunately, in these years, productivity was limited, and the reclamation was concentrated in the plains, and a large amount of land in the mountain forests could not be used for the time being, so we could only barely maintain the balance between supply and demand per acre.

This situation, with the victory of the Second Battle of Exterminating Chu, was completely broken.

Not counting the black man, these military officials who have increased their land by a few hectares or dozens of hectares in one go. The 600,000 people who participated in the war alone, each of whom was rewarded with an average first-class knighthood, would have to distribute 60 million acres of land!

It is not enough to only open up the wasteland, in order to appease the meritorious soldiers who are waiting to be fed, the king of Qin can only make ideas from other places.

The second method was to seize the fields of the people of the Five Kingdoms in the counties of the former Five Kingdoms, or to attack the nobles and nobles and seize their land, so that the soldiers of the Qin army could immigrate to occupy them.

As tempting as it sounds, the conqueror likes to impose tyranny on the vanquished, such as the Qing Dynasty's land enclosure decree.

But to Heifu's surprise, King Qin actually didn't take this step!

Although Qin Wangzheng moved some of the nobles to Guanzhong to monitor nearby, he did not take away their land, but acquiesced in the land occupation before the Qin army entered.

Zhang Han also said: "When I was in Shouchun, the county guard ordered the people from all over the country to declare the land they owned to the county order and the husband, and called it Zishitian. Except for those noble lands that rebelled against the army, which were confiscated as public land, none of the rest of the people's land was plundered by the government......"

It is wise not to add fuel to the fire of the old place of the five countries with sharp contradictions. Most of the people can sit back and watch the collapse of the country and laugh at the fall of the princes, but if you want to touch their land, then you are their enemy, and the honest farmers will also carry farm tools and fight with you!

As a result, the king of Qin was left with only one last option: to open up the territory, open up new counties and fields in the land of the barbarian Rongdi, and take this as a reward for the soldiers, so that they could become the production and construction corps of Great Qin......

"But the soldiers did not regard this as a reward, but as a denunciation and disappointment."

Heifu shook his head, standing in the position of King Qin, this choice is undoubtedly right, it can not only solve the urgent need, but also leave a legacy for thousands of years. Just like the Duke of Zhou, who drove all his relatives to remote areas to be princes thousands of years ago, future generations will only praise him for his foresight.

But there are sacrifices in everything, and the 3,000 soldiers of the Southern Expedition became the victims. Originally, he fought hard, but he only hoped to have more fields at home and be looked down upon by his fellow villagers, but he was unexpectedly sent to a wild place far away from his homeland.

Wealth does not return to the hometown, such as brocade clothes at night, when Xiang Yu and Liu Bang in history became famous, they still had the idea of abandoning Guanzhong and returning to their hometowns, not to mention the pawns in Nanchang.

When they are resentful, they will think about the question: "Is it worth it for me to work so hard to make meritorious contributions?" ”

When he reached the barracks, Heifu could feel that the usual cheerfulness was gone, and the soldiers were full of disappointment, and they were weak to salute him.

When he returned to Nanchang City and was about to say goodbye, Zhang Han asked: "When Heifu appeased the soldiers, he said that he wanted to ask the king for an understanding?" ”

Heifu smiled bitterly: "Thunder and rain dew, it's not heaven's grace." I'm a little left-handed, how dare I do such a thing. It's just a matter of feeding back the situation of the soldiers to the king, so that the king knows what the people below think of this matter, and that's it......"

But at the time, Hefu had to say that he had to make the soldiers feel that he was on their side, and that he was losing both. In this way, their dissatisfaction and anger can be suppressed, so as not to cause bigger trouble.

He didn't think that the situation he gave back could make King Qin change his mind, because, even Heifu himself thought that King Qin's measure was right in the overall situation!

"Without the hard work of the ancestors of the Qin people in the west, I am afraid that it is still the place of Rong Di."

"Without the ancestors of the Chu people, Jiang Han is probably a wilderness now."

When Wu Qi reformed, let the nobles of Chu move to the borderlands, but the nobles were unwilling, and after the death of the king of Chu, they rose up and killed Wu Qi. Although most of them were pitted by Wu Qi and died together, the Chu State also gave up halfway. More nobles happily ran back to Jiangling to continue to live a good life, so more than a hundred years have passed, and the current Chujiang Jiangnan is still like this.

In which era did there be no victims? If everyone is only nested in their hometown, the current area of China is still only a small part of the Central Plains......

As a ruler, King Qin doesn't need to think about small personal sacrifices, he just needs to have a deep vision and boldness that surpasses the times!

At this point, Heifu stood on the side of Qin Shi Huang, and the three thousand soldiers of the Southern Expedition stayed here, which could not only develop Jiangxi, but also consolidate the border defense, and even more large-scale immigration was still to come.

"Let's make a fuss, if you have a family, when your wife migrates, you will be separated. Bachelors will also marry Chu and Yue women locally. At that time, the development and construction of Nanchang will be almost complete, even if they are driven back to Nanjun, I am afraid they will not be too lazy to move! ”

Having said that, when Heifu returned to the camp, he asked his soldiers to light the anointing oil, etc., and wrote a letter to the Jiujiang County Shou with a pen. He decided to do one last thing for his men before leaving......

……

In the first month of the 26th year of the reign of King Qin (October), Heifu's subordinates stationed in various places, either before or after, received a letter of appointment, which was about the establishment of new county governance in various parts of Jiangxi and the appointment of county officials......

Zhao Tuo was pleasantly surprised to find that he would become the "Captain of Jiujiang", in addition to being responsible for the security of the "Jiujiang County" located in Xunyang, he would also be responsible for the defense of the entire Peng Lize.

Lixian was also excited to learn that his fake lieutenant had done it, and he was appointed as the Cheng of Fanyang County by Jiujiang County and became the second-in-command of this county.

Dongmen Leopard and Xiao Tao also received the official seals of the county lieutenant of Luling County and the county lieutenant of Ganxian County.

These appointments all stem from the advice submitted by Heifu to the Jiujiang County Guard:

"The county guard wants to keep everyone in the local garrison, so that everyone can do their best, and the generals will be safe, and the soldiers will also be safe."

Since the people of Nanjun want to stay here, then it is necessary to respect their position and power, so that the military officials can abandon their dissatisfaction, restrain their soldiers, and prevent them from being confused for a while and fleeing back to their hometowns.

After everyone's surprise, what followed was gratitude to Heifu.

Dongmen Leopard, Xiao Tao, and Lixian all regretted that they could not go to see Heifu for the last time in person, so they could only bow down to the north and west to say goodbye.

"We know that Sima has not abandoned everyone!"

In Nanchang City, Nanchang County was also formally established, Xu Shu, who had just been promoted to the chief official of Nanchang, Gong Ao, the governor of Nanchang County, and Ji Ying, the postal secretary of Nanchang County, shocked Shi, and the four of them saw off Heifu in Zhanglin in the north of the city.

Xu Shu promised that he would take care of the promotion of local officials, and when the Nanchang County order arrived, he would recommend Heifu's meritorious old ministries to him.

Ji Ying snorted and cried, he had the earliest friendship with Heifu, but now Heifu wants to leave him to go to the north, which is inevitably a little sad.

Heifu's younger brother was shocked, but he also knew that he couldn't keep up with where his brother was going......

Only Gongao, although he got an errand as a county lieutenant, he was still a little resentful of Qin Wangqiang for leaving them in Nanchang, and said to Heifu: "Sima is going to Xianyang, and I hope to say something for the soldiers, even if they can't make them return to their hometowns, at least let their wives move here as soon as possible." ”

Heifu looked at the place where he had been fighting for a year, and the thousands of old departments on the banks of Ganshui, who were reluctant to give up on him. This send-off battle is really too spectacular, fortunately, the new Nanchang County Commander has not yet arrived, otherwise I am afraid I will be very jealous.

He nodded, boarded the carriage, looked back at everyone, and said loudly:

"Although this body is in the north, Heifu's heart will still be with three thousand soldiers! But anything about the second and third sons, Heifu will also take it as his own business and fight for it in the court! ”

More than 1,000 children of the township party stationed in Nanchang bowed to Heifu and said in unison: "Congratulations to Sima into the capital!" ”

When Langguan Yang Yu left, he also gave Heifu an order that was different from that of other soldiers.

The king of Qin agreed to the political plan for Jiangxi, but he ordered Heifu to step down from Fanyang Order, and asked him to enter Xianyang to meet him before the moon of mid-spring!

Zhang Han analyzed that he should be retained as an official when he goes.

This little fish from Nanjun, after six years of struggle, finally relied on his own efforts and jumped into the dragon gate......

The carriage slowly traveled north, waiting for Hefu in the center of this world, where there was an even more turbulent wave of the times!