"Did you hear that?"

"What?"

"The Hu people who went south were wiped out on the edge of a desert in the northwest."

"Huh?! So, the war is coming to an end? ”

The fighting near the source of the Yellow River, which lasted for nearly a year and eight months, ended with the surrender of Touman's army, leaving Meng Tian with only some unfinished matters. Those small things included the pursuit of Huyanmi's defeated soldiers, arranging for the escort of surrendered prisoners of war, and sending Touman and other steppe tribe leaders to Nanling.

In order to win the victory in the northwest frontier, the empire mobilized a huge amount of manpower and material resources, and as the war ended, the flow of people to and from the logistics line to provide supplies and supplies was bound to decrease, which may be a good thing to reduce the burden on the country, but for many people will lose the opportunity to beg for food.

Many people in Qin were hired to maintain the logistics line transportation in the northwest territory, and more people relied on the army's procurement of civilian personnel, and most of them were happy that the war in Touman was coming to an end, and they had to confuse the army that it no longer needed to hire manpower and purchase from the people, and they were a little unsure of what to do.

According to incomplete statistics, the number of people employed in Neishi County, Shang County, and Beidi County in Qin Land was more than 800,000, and the materials purchased by the army from Qin Land remained at an average of 1.2 million yuan for a long time.

The military has brought jobs to the civilian sector in large numbers, and the employed people are paid on a per-time or monthly basis, which in some ways is a source of subsistence for a family, and the nearly year-long employment has made too many people accustomed to working when they are not busy with farming, and they are very worried about how to maintain a relatively prosperous life once the army is no longer employed.

"I really hope that the war will go on forever!"

"Yes, I thought it would be three years or five years or even longer, thinking that the army would increase the purchase of piglets, so I smashed the pot and sold iron to increase investment in pig raising. Now that the money has been poured in, I don't know if the army will continue to purchase piglets, but what should I do! ”

"Pork will always be bought and eaten, and those who expand the scale of the workshop and hire women to make war robes on a large scale are the real bad luck. If the army didn't buy the uniforms they made, they would really jump into the river. ”

Victory in the war is definitely a good thing, but if you go on such a journey in Qindi, listening to the people's discussions, no matter how you look at it, you don't feel that the Qiantou of Qindi feels happy, but a sigh and wail, as if the people in Qindi are eager for the war to be fought until the end of the world.

This phenomenon is related to the wartime economy, which is that people are stimulated by the huge consumption of the state under the employment and procurement of state actions, which leads to a surge in production. Often, wartime economies do allow certain areas to develop rapidly, as the state-acted mass hiring and purchasing enriches. But once state hiring and procurement ceases, the surge in production will become unsalable, and there will be a wail if there are no jobs and goods to sell.

"We have to find a way to solve it, if we don't solve it, the Qin land that has just been included in the rule will be in chaos?" It was Zhang Ming, the county magistrate of Chaona County, who spoke.

It has been a matter of nearly three months since the Qin land was brought under the rule of Lu Zhe, and for the Qin land that had just been brought under the rule, only the county guards of each county had changed, and the administrative system of counties and townships remained unchanged.

In fact, although Lu Zhe has opened various colleges and universities, he is not enough in terms of reserve officials, and there are reasons why the reserve officials are not sufficient and cannot keep up. The bigger reason was that the army was expanding too quickly, and another reason was that Lü Zhe didn't want to be too eager to cause chaos due to large-scale official transfers.

So far, Nanling Academy has provided at least 200 county commanders and county magistrates for the country, but for at least 1,600 counties in the entire empire. There are too few county magistrates and county magistrates for 200 counties. Not to mention that Lu Zhe's establishment of academies and academies is not entirely for the purpose of cultivating "civil servants", but more academies and universities are actually cultivating talents in science and technology, industry, and technology.

Zhang Ming was originally a man who ate the surname of Zhao of the Qin State. The Qin State was merged by Lu Zhe, and it was logical for him to take the job provided by Lu Zhe. Not only him, but after Qin became the territory of the empire. Except for a very small number of resignations, more than ninety percent of the officials chose to stay at their posts, and they also became one of the important forces for Lu Zhe to maintain local stability.

Chaona County is not a large county in Neishi County, and the population does not exceed 10,000 people, so Zhang Ming is also a county magistrate, not a county commander. With a population of less than 10,000 people, Chaona was divided into seven townships, and during the war of reunification, a large number of strong men were transferred, and in fact, there may not be 4,000 people still living on the land of Chaona. These 4,000 people had been very difficult because of the large number of young people who had been transferred and the state had paid too much tax, and life began to improve after Fusu agreed to the Han army to hire labor and buy materials in Qin.

Not only Chaona, but as long as it was on the Han army's logistical supply line or in the surrounding counties, the Han army would hire people and buy materials from those areas, resulting in the phenomenon that the people in some areas directly benefited, and the difficult life was also improved because of the availability of jobs or the sale of materials. In a way, it was the Han army that hired a large number of people and purchased materials from Qin, and the number of Qin people who benefited was so huge that the people who were originally ruled by the Zhao family name Ying accepted the Qin land under the rule of Lü Zhe more quickly.

"The head of the Qianqian is worried about the change in his life, and this matter should be reported to the new county guard immediately."

Because of Qin's long-term pragmatic national policy, those wine bags and rice bags among the officials actually can't mix at all, and it is even more impossible to want a corpse vegetarian meal. Zhang Ming, like many loyal parents, has always attached importance to the living environment of the Qianshou under his rule, and also cares about the thoughts of the Qianshou under his rule. There are not many officials like him in the Qin State, and pragmatism has always been the long-term national policy of the Qin State, and the good use of capable people is the key to the rise of the Qin State.

The new county keeper of Neishi County is called Banxian, and he is one of the patriarchs of the three major clans of Nanshi. The Fan family made a lot of efforts when Lu Zhe just rose, and once was bankrupt to help when the Xiang clan attacked Lu Zhe in Lujiang County when he lacked food, and Lu Zhe gave the reward was to let the Fan family enter the officialdom, Fanxian was first appointed as the county magistrate of Luo County, Changsha County, and was transferred to Fanyang and Huiji County of Lujiang County for excellent governance, and he was the county magistrate or county commander for three terms.

Neishi County is the largest county in Qin, with more than 10 upper counties and nearly 100 lower counties. It is an area that the surname Zhao has focused on for hundreds of years. Because Lü Zhe promised Xianyang to give Fusu a fiefdom in the empire, Xianyang naturally could not be used as the capital, and the new capital was Zhiyang, thirty miles southeast of Xianyang.

The Nanling Center has already made a decision to rename Zhiyang as Chang'an and build Chang'an into the largest city in Neishi County.

Changan? That's right, it's Chang'an, it's located on the east side of Bashui, north of Weishui, less than 20 miles away from Lishan Mountain, and about 50 miles away from Afang Palace. After the discussion of some scholars in the center. There were various advantages in the topography, and there was a suggestion that the capital of the empire should be moved to Chang'an.

Those who suggested moving the capital had many reasons, one of which was that Qindi had the danger of mountains and rivers, and the eight hundred miles of Qinchuan was the land where the capital of the king should be directly affected by the ruler of the empire, and he also proposed that the expansion direction of the empire was mainly concentrated in the northwest and north, and the political ~ political center should be appropriately moved there, rather than choosing Nanling, a city in the Yangtze River basin, as the capital.

If you spread out the map, the empire under the repeated expansion. Her territory has taken on the shape of a wild boar, but Nanling is under the belly of the "wild boar", which is really a little far away from its head and back. In the past, because the Central Plains, Qindi, Liaodong and Northwest Territories, and grasslands were not included in the imperial territory, Nanling, which is located on the edge of the Yangtze River, is indeed a good place as a capital. However, the current situation is different from when Lu Zhe first rose, Nanling, as the capital of the empire, is really a bit southern, and in addition to the convenience of water transportation, there is really no natural terrain defense advantage.

According to the established expansion plan, the future territory of the empire will definitely not be in the shape of a "wild boar". In fact, within ten years, the empire's territory will become a huge "maple leaf" form, encompassing the entire South Asia, the Western Regions, the grasslands, and the north of Liaodong; According to Lü Zhe's expectations, Luzon and other Philippine archipelagos, the Malay Archipelago, and other islands would inevitably be included in the empire's maritime territory.

In the next twenty years. The territory of the "maple leaf" shape is estimated to not change much, after all, how much you eat should be digested, and it should not continue to expand before it is not digested, and if it is indigestion because of "eating" too much, it is really a bit funny.

It is estimated that twenty years later, the imperial army will step into Central Asia from the Western Regions, and will also invade the Indian subcontinent by sea and land, and it is really difficult to say what the shape of the empire will be at that time.

It is precisely because the territory of the empire has an expansion goal that there are more voices in the choice of the imperial capital, the suggestion to move the capital to Chang'an is just one of them, and there are even more calls for moving to Linzi in Qi or Luoyang in Handi, and the most strange thing is that someone actually said that they should choose a place to build a capital in Yanmen or Daijun.

Someone suggested moving the capital, so naturally there will be people who oppose moving the capital, especially many people in the interest group under Lu Zhe are from Nanjun, and this group of people from Nanjun has already enjoyed the benefits of being close to the administrative capital of the empire, how can they be willing to give up? Therefore, the group of people born in Nanjun had the most fierce opposition, Changsha County, Hengshan County, and Lujiang County in the south...... In the Yangtze River basin, south of the Yangtze River, and even in Lingnan and South Asia, the counties also raised objections.

To be honest, most people don't think about where the imperial capital is right, they just hope to be closer to the imperial capital, there are countless examples in history that once the location is far away from the capital, then not only far away from the political ~ political center, in fact, the attention from the central ~ central government will also be reduced, for the development of the local or official career are in a relatively disadvantageous position.

The first rebellion started from Yiling in Nanjun, and then spread to all parts of the world, and the war was the first to be quelled by Yiling, with the rise of Lu Zhe, he continued to extinguish the war in his position, until he brought most of the counties in the Yangtze River basin into his rule, and all the south of the Yangtze River was also occupied, and the Central Plains and various places were still in a state of endless war.

In the new census, the population of the Yangtze River valley accounted for 30% of the total population of the empire, several counties south of the Yangtze River accounted for 30% of the population, and less than 40% of the population was in the Central Plains, Qindi, and Liaodong.

The distribution of the population is wonderful, because the Yangtze River basin and the south of the Yangtze River, which first quelled the war, attracted a considerable number of people from the Central Plains and other regions, and because the population under the rule of Lu Zhe was growing rather than decreasing, the result was that the originally densely populated Central Plains became sparsely populated, and those who were already sparsely populated became even smaller.

The Empire has its own population distribution plan, and will continue to encourage people to move to the South in the coming years, because the Center has observed and calculated what role the development of the South will play for the Empire.

Once several areas in the south are successfully developed, it is expected that there will be no fewer than seven areas that will be giant grain producing areas, such as most of Changsha County (that is, modern Hunan), such as Lingnan (including parts of Vietnam, Laos, Burma and other places that have been invaded), such as the developed plains in central Guizhou, and so on, which will become important areas for transporting grain to all parts of the empire, so it is necessary to migrate people to the designated development zones.

The development of the south by the empire does not mean that it does not pay attention to other regions of the Central Plains, but considering that the Central Plains and other places have been cultivated for thousands of years, and the local land holdings do not have much room for the state to plan, after all, all the land cannot be nationalized and then distributed, right? Once the land is really state-owned, it should be countless people who stand up and work hard, and at that time it should be everywhere again, so even if there is no climate in the south suitable as a factor for production areas, there is no other place to choose except for the south, which is full of state-owned land.

In addition, in addition to the development of production areas in the south, Lu Zhe did not forget that there is a place called Heilongjiang in the north of Liaodong, which has thousands of miles of plains, and the black soil is unimaginably fertile, not to mention the endless deforestation there, and countless minerals buried in the ground.

Speaking of minerals, after two years of hard work and exploration, a huge iron ore was really found on the grassland, the strangest thing is that the iron ore mine does not need to be mined naturally exposed, and the amount that can be obtained by shallow mining is also very large.

Lu Zhe had planned to build an arsenal in the grassland, and he stared at the map for a long time before he could see from some references, and it turned out that the place where the minerals were found was actually modern Baotou. But whatever it may be called, the plan he has made before is still feasible to implement, and the question is whether there is enough population and whether it should or shouldn...... (To be continued......)