Section 934 Emigration to the West (1)
Seeing the behavior of the imperial court, the civil ministers and military generals on Wei Xi's side, and the wealthy businessmen all shouted luck in unison, and decided that Wei Xi was so wise that he was almost a demon!
Because what the imperial court did was exactly what Wei Xi said, almost exactly the same!
Wei Xi's most important task on this trip back to the dynasty is to move people and money!
He wants to persuade the families to move their children, people, and wealth out of the border and all the way to Damascus!
"Whether you go or not, the imperial court will definitely tighten the scale, raise taxes, strengthen management, and the previous relaxation will no longer exist!" As soon as Wei Xi returned to the dynasty, he pointed out at a secret meeting of major families and wealthy businessmen.
Among the attendees were the families of his important financial sponsors, senior officials of the Wei Xi system.
There were Boss Huang, Gao Balang, Hu Shang Mo Moye, businessmen Wang Yanliang, Fang Shuozhi, acquaintances of the big slave owner Minimi and Lite giant merchant Kang Caien, etc., as well as the Wei family, the Cheng family, the Cui family and the emerging military aristocratic family and other hundreds of people participated.
Over the years, they have made a lot of money because of their participation in Wei Xi's western expedition, and they have gained a lot!
"Move our industry to Damascus, tea, silk, porcelain, pharmaceuticals, winemaking, salt, steel, cotton, cement, agriculture, agriculture, commerce, etc., wealth and most importantly, population!"
"Relocate a large number of people to the West!" His eyes sparkled and he said: "Restore production, increase population, develop the economy, develop the West, cultural exchanges!" ”
"As long as there are people, we can actually occupy the place we get!"
In fact, immigrants to the West, Wei Xi and Princess Taiping have been carrying out this work, luring and using good treatment to lure people out of the customs, buying slaves, and exiles.
In the propaganda of the martial brothers slandering Wei Xi, it is said that Wei Xi deliberately sat idly by and let the cool officials frame the good people, the leader was killed, and his family was exiled, and most of the exiles were in the Western Regions.
This realization was only known to the martial brothers later, but unfortunately it was too late, and by the time they intervened to stop it, at least 300,000 people had reached the Western Regions over the years.
Not only are people who are cruel officials, but the local government mostly uses exile to convict crimes, and the place of exile is mostly in the Western Regions, and there are 200,000 people.
Then there were the two father-in-laws who cheated and bought, as well as the population supported by each family, reaching 1.5 million!
Of course, it has something to do with Guo Beiju's green light when he was appointed as the head of the household department.
The household department is in charge of household registration, and the migration of the population is inseparable from the nod of the household department.
The reason why he left office was because he was under pressure from the top, the population given was too much, and there was a big gold case in Shandong, so he had to beg to go.
Guo Beiju is about to leave office, and Wei Xi is making a last effort.
Because of his high charisma, all the participants agreed to move the main industries and people westward.
Since the end of the Spring Festival, a large number of people from all over the Kannai have taken the train and migrated westward!
They often chartered a special train, did not get off the train along the way, lived in the car, and the supply of drinking water and food was handed over to the "offices" in various places, and the train did not stop day and night, all the way to the west!
The Tang people's settlements are mainly located along the railway, which is not far from rivers and lakes.
After leaving Yumen Pass and arriving in Xinjiang, the Tang people's residences are distributed in Bosten Lake, Ulungu Lake, Aibi Lake, Sailim Lake, etc., and the rivers are the Ili River and the Tarim River.
Bosten Lake covers an area of 1,500 square kilometers and is inhabited by 500,000 Tang people, and Korla is the residence of the Taiping Princess's shogunate, which is the most important source of grain and livestock for the Western Army.
Ulungu Lake also covers thousands of square kilometers and is also the land of fishing and rice.
The Ili River is the birthplace of the Tuqi Shi people, but the Tang people in Guannei did not feel the slightest discomfort when they arrived there, because the Tuqi Shi people have been completely sinicized!
Their clothing, food, housing and transportation are exactly the same as those of the Han people, celebrating the Spring Festival, believing in Bodhisattvas, and there is no shortage of Chinese names and Chinese characters.
Leaving the Ili River Valley, you arrive at the Issyk-Kul region, also known as Atami, where various ethnic groups live together, the economy is prosperous, and it is also highly sinicized.
The train entered a "two river basins", the Amu Darya River and the Syr Lake basin, which was the former land of the Zhaowu kingdom and the homeland of the Lite people, but the Han people had a dominant population.
They live near the Aral Sea, where the two rivers are fed, and they develop and produce populations.
Then there is the land of Khorasan, where the land is barren, the desert and mountainous areas are numerous, and the Tang people are mainly distributed in the oasis area.
Important place to arrive: the Persian Plateau!
The Tang people are distributed in important cities and regions: there are the garrison districts on the Caspian Sea, the port city of Abadan, and the heartland of Isfahan, Ahvaz, Tabriz, etc.
Another two river basins were the focus of development, and the Euphrates and Tigris rivers there, where the land was fertile, soon became the darling of the Tang Dynasty immigrants.
Since the Don army has occupied Damascus, Lebanon, which is close at hand, will certainly not let go, and if Lebanon is obtained, the Don army will wash horses and polish boots on the Mediterranean Sea!
The above are the main areas occupied by the Tang people, and their main work is four major things:
Crops, animal husbandry, coal and iron, roads, population!
The Tang people relied on advanced planting technology, the help of cattle and horses given by the government, a large number of wasteland farming, producing sorghum, barley, wheat, soybeans, mung beans, beans, millet (millet), millet, etc., the Tang people are the most hardworking people in the world, as long as they are given conditions, they will plant anything in any suitable place!
In addition to this, they also grow cash crops such as cotton, sugar beets, rape, sunflowers, etc.,
Fruits include dates, melons (cantaloupe), watermelons, apples, pears, grapes, apricots, peaches, plums, dates, pomegranates, cherries, figs, walnuts, almonds, etc.
Vegetable crops are also abundant, such as cabbage, spinach, coriander, cabbage, yellow radish, green radish, white radish, green onion, kidney bean and so on.
The medicinal materials are abundant, and the industry has been established, producing licorice, fritillary, safflower, snow lotus, Daru, Ophiopogon vulgaris, angelica, Codonopsis, Aferulda, Cistanche, Taijiang, ephedra, wolfberry, Qingzhu and so on.
The planting industry is extremely developed, and the grain output hits a new high every year, so that all the Tang people have enough food to eat, and the military horses eat bean cakes, and can eat grain in the spring.
There is so much grain that it can be used to make wine, and the yield is not low.
For the scientifically backward feudal society, winemaking is really a luxury.
Ensuring grain production is a big deal, Wei Xi and Princess Taiping often can't grasp it, and the Tang people themselves like to grow grain, and the production technology is high, so there is no problem with the supply of output.
The supply of fruits is very abundant and cheap, the Tang people have a large supply of fresh and dried fruits, especially for the military, raisins are a common snack, and now with the addition of dates, the Tang people easily accept this high-sugar snack to replenish their strength.