Chapter 732: The Resistance of the People
Cao Rui said, ignored Cao Xiu, got up and left the main hall.
Cao Xiu's face turned red, and he roared in the main hall: "Taizu, the first emperor, open your eyes and take a look, my Great Wei Kingdom is about to be handed over."
The land of several states, abandoned without a fight, how could my Great Wei have been so humiliated? Emperor Xian, this is the good emperor you picked, open your eyes and take a good look! ”
As soon as Cao Rui returned to the dormitory, a chamberlain ran in with a panicked face: "Your Majesty, General Cao is scolding in the front hall, do you need to ......?"
Cao Rui waved his hand when he heard this: "No need, let him take him home, take care of him, and don't let him run around before moving the capital." ”
"No!"
If it is an ordinary person, he is so disrespectful, he is afraid that he will not be able to escape death, but fortunately, Cao Xiu is the Cao Wei clan, and Cao Rui did not blame Cao Xiu, but just asked people to take him home and take care of him, so as not to make any moths.
Driven by Sima Yi's strategy, Cao Rui finally chose to abandon the land south of the Yellow River and move north to Hebei.
Once you've decided to move north, there are four things you need to do.
First of all, the most important thing is to move the capital, and Cao Rui chose the capital in Yecheng.
Yecheng is the seat of Jizhou, Yuan Shao's base camp in the early years was here, and later Cao Cao defeated Yuan Shao, entered the Duke of Wei, the king of Wei, and the capital of Wei was in Yecheng.
At the beginning, Cao Pi usurped the Han Dynasty and became independent, and the national capital was also set in Yecheng, and Luoyang was later selected to move the capital.
The scale of Yecheng is not inferior to Luoyang, and even surpasses it, and there is also a palace in it, so there is naturally no problem in making Yecheng the new national capital.
The second thing is to move the people.
Although Cao Rui decided to move north and give up the land south of the Yellow River, those people Cao Rui did not want to give it to the Han Dynasty.
To dominate the world, the most important thing is territory and population, one of the two cannot be missing, it is not enough to have land without population, and it is not possible to have population without land.
Giving up the land south of the Yellow River has made Cao Rui very heartbroken, and the people in these places, Cao Rui will naturally not give up.
Among the states, Cao Rui ordered the priority to relocate the people in Xuzhou, Yangzhou and Yanzhou.
Because Sima Yi suggested to Cao Rui to dig the Yellow River and divert the Yellow River to deal with Zhuge Liang, when the Yellow River Nanbian, Yanzhou, Xuzhou, and Yangzhou were all the hardest-hit areas of the floods, and the people in these areas naturally had to be transferred first.
The third thing is to inform Jiangdong and let Sun Quan prepare to take over Yangzhou and Xuzhou.
Zhuge Liang attacked Wei from Jiangxia, in addition to Jiangxia being easier to attack and easy to open a breakthrough, he also had the idea of capturing Xu and Yang and cutting off the connection between Eastern Wu and Wei.
Now that Wei and Jiangdong are allies, the land south of the Yellow River is going to be ceded anyway, and it is better to give it to Jiangdong than to give it to the Han Dynasty, which can not only enhance Jiangdong's strength and attract the attention of the Han Dynasty, but also keep the land between the two countries still bordering, and it is more convenient to attack and defend the alliance.
And the fourth thing is the transfer of soldiers and horses.
Now the soldiers and horses of Wei are concentrated in the two places of Sili and Xuchang.
Since the capital has not yet been moved, Si Li's soldiers and horses cannot move for the time being, but on the Xuchang side, the 50,000 soldiers and horses controlled by Sima Yi still have other tasks.
Sima Yi proposed to Cao Rui to dig the Yellow River, but the Yellow River is in the north, and Zhuge Liang is still in Jiangxia, and the two places are separated by thousands of miles.
And this task naturally fell to Sima Yi, who was replaced by someone else, but he did not have the ability to complete such a difficult task.
The news of Cao Rui's order to move north soon spread.
There was an uproar in Luoyang City.
"Have you heard? Zhuge Liang broke through Jiangxia, and now there is no danger to defend south of the Yellow River in my Great Wei, His Majesty has decided to abandon the land south of the Yellow River and retreat to Hebei, and will move the capital soon! ”
"Give up the land south of the Yellow River? Luoyang is located in Henan, so what should we do? ”
"Of course, I went with the imperial court, you go home and prepare quickly, so as not to be in a hurry, fortunately, I also have some land in Jizhou, and it doesn't have much impact if I move away."
"My family's fields are all in Henan County, what should I do after I move to Hebei? Did the imperial court give us land? ”
"After the migration, we should be given some fields, otherwise we will drink the northwest wind at that time? However, this time, the people of several states will have to move over, and when there are more people, I am afraid that there will not be much land after the average distribution. ”
"How's that going to work? My family business is in Luoyang, I live well in Luoyang, I didn't have such a good life when I went to Hebei, I don't leave. ”
"I won't leave, the fields left by my ancestors can't be buried in my hands."
"If you don't go, you can't go, now that the Three Kingdoms are established, what is most lacking is people, how can Your Majesty leave us to Shu?"
The people in Luoyang City talked a lot, and they were very resistant to the relocation.
First of all, it is difficult to leave their homeland, and the vast majority of people are reluctant to leave their hometowns, even if Cao Rui prepared the same big residence and the same large fields for them in the north, these people are reluctant to leave.
Then there is the issue of wealth.
In later societies, basically money can solve all problems, as long as you have money, you don't have a house to buy, you have money in your pocket, and you have to be harder.
However, in ancient times, it was different, and the root of the ancient people was the field and the land. The hard power of a family is the field, even if there is more money, there is no land, it is equivalent to rootless duckweed, and in troubled times, even if there is a mountain of gold and silver, there is no land that can be produced.
If you move to the north, you have to give up the fields in your hometown, because there are many people who want to move in the past, and the fields allocated by the imperial court are probably not as much as those in your hometown, and the interests of these people have been lost, and they naturally resist the migration in their hearts.
As the saying goes, whoever wins the hearts of the people wins the world.
The so-called winning the hearts of the people is actually to protect the interests of the people, protect the interests of the overwhelming majority of the people, protect the interests of the people, and enhance the interests of the people, so as to win the hearts of the people.
No matter how benevolent and filial an emperor is, he can't safeguard the interests of the people, and he still can't win the hearts of the people. The people are only worried about eating and drinking, so they don't care whether your emperor is filial piety or not, benevolence or not.
To be realistic, the world is bustling, all for profit, the world is bustling, all for profit, people live for a lifetime, basically still a good word.
Cao Rui's relocation harmed the interests of the people south of the Yellow River, and he lost the support of the people.
The resistance of the common people was more intense, and the situation of the officials was slightly better, after all, they had official positions, and after the migration, they could still gain a foothold in the north by virtue of their official positions.
But the officials are different.
Officials are different from officials, most of the officials are composed of local heroes, members of the landlord family, their power is in the locality, they can become officials, relying on the influence of the family in the locality, in a different place, they are no different from ordinary people.
The officials controlled the place, and the people and officials were reluctant to move, and relying on the officials alone was destined to make the work of moving the people very difficult.