Looking at the map of the empire's territory, you will find that the imperial capital Nanling is a bit to the south, although the empire is building traffic all the time, but it still needs to use feet and animal power in the era, Nanling as the imperial capital has actually been southerly, riding a fast horse from Nanling to the northern grassland, on the way people do not rest to change horses and ride at least nearly a month, and this is still the speed of people who do not stop riding, how can it take more than four months to walk on foot.

Transportation is an important part of a country, and only with developed transportation can the center effectively control the country, and places with inconvenient transportation usually have a unified name called "Mountain High Emperor Yuan", that is, it is difficult to have actual control.

What is it based on which a country guarantees the stability of its rule? It is a bit empty to say that it relies on the will of the people, and the will of the people is a very illusory thing, but in fact it is to see whether the state can effectively control the territory of its rule.

The farther away from the center, the harder it is to detect what is happening in the local area, and there is room for operation if you want to do something. Under normal circumstances, it is impossible for a country to garrison troops everywhere, except for the necessary border troops to guard the border, in ancient times, the army would actually be arranged not far from the national capital, and the more elite troops were like this, that was to prevent the army from being too far away from control, making it possible for some generals to turn the army into a private army.

What methods should the ruler use to achieve the goal of controlling the country? Mastering the name of righteousness is one of them, and the people's will and education is the other, but these two are actually relatively virtual components, and the more important thing is to master the violent machine, that is, to have soldiers in hand.

Only the ruler who controls the institutions of violence can truly control the country, and there is no distinction between right and wrong, good or bad, and when there is a riot, rebellion, and so on in a certain place, the army can quickly arrive. The timely extinguishing or extermination of anyone who shakes the rule is the basis of the rule.

The establishment of a companion capital in Guanzhong by the empire is related to the need to enter the Western Regions, but it is also related to part of "control".

Once Chang'an is established, it will show the importance that the world empire attaches to Guanzhong, and it will have a deterrent effect on some people with bad intentions. Other than that. Chang'an will also stay in some central administrative personnel for a long time, and the emperor will stay in Chang'an for a fixed time throughout the year, and military forces that are absolutely loyal to the emperor will inevitably be arranged around Chang'an.

Why did the First Emperor keep inspecting places after the unification of the world, wasn't it just to deter Xiaoxiao? It has been proven that the First Emperor may be able to act as a deterrent when he arrives in a certain place, but once the First Emperor leaves the local area, those people will be active again, and the effect is very limited.

Lü Zhe's choice was to establish a companion capital, not only to build a Chang'an in Guanzhong, but also to build another companion capital near Zhuo County in Guangyang County, Liaodong, Beiping. In this way, it is located in the south of the Nanling Tomb. Chang'an, located in Guanzhong, and Beiping, located in Liaodong, form a triangle in the three places, forming an angular control over the entire empire.

A decision has been made on where Chang'an should be built, but it definitely does not mean that it will be built immediately. Now that the empire has only just stabilized, and there are wars going on abroad, the local people will not complain too much, but the establishment of a capital is only beneficial. Even if it is paid employment, it is not suitable for recruiting a large number of people, and it can only be appropriately recruited in small quantities and it will take a long period to establish Chang'an.

"The main thing is that there are not many young people in Guanzhong. Otherwise, it won't be too much of a hindrance. Fanxian is the county guard of Neishi County, he himself is the head of one of the three wealthy families in Nanjun, and he can be regarded as a descendant of Lu Zhe, so he is not so evasive when he says something: "The main labor force in Guanzhong is missing, and the basic workers are the old and weak, women and children, and the more important thing is to restore the production of the people." Even if it is a paid recruitment, there will be a limited number of responders. ”

The lieutenant has talked about this many times, and even dares to say that he has a strong tendency to give more leave to the sergeant and pawn, which shows that Guanzhong is really too short of labor. Now, the county keeper who manages civil affairs also says that there is a shortage of labor in Guanzhong. Then it is impossible for Lu Zhe not to pay attention to it.

"The Xiongnu invaded the south and entered the upper county and the northern county, and the northern county has always been a battlefield in the later period, and the situation in the two counties is even more serious than that of the inner history county." Li Si interjected: "The Central Plains is densely populated, and it seems that it is a little too dense. ”

Lu Zhe glanced at Li Si and could hear the hidden meaning of Li Si's words, which was nothing more than a suggestion to immigrate from the Central Plains to Guanzhong to fill the lack of labor in Guanzhong, but is it possible?

The empire is expanding rapidly, and most of them are sparsely populated areas, and the counties in Guanzhong together still have at least four or five million registered people, and the three counties of Lingnan are not smaller than the land of Guanzhong, but there are only 370,000 people in the poor baba, who should cry to? Not to mention the other newly established counties, some of which have a total area of no less than 100,000 square kilometers but only 20,000 or 30,000 registered people.

The more densely populated counties of the empire are the counties of the Central Plains and the Yangtze River Basin, among which the population of the imperial capital Nanling alone is close to one million, but what can it be? Is it mandatory to apportionment of immigration? Let's not talk about whether it is feasible or not, it is estimated that if you really want to do that, you should wait for another world chaos to change the dynasty.

Many times Lu Zhe really doesn't understand a little, the empire has come up with a good immigration policy, but most people would rather be trapped in their hometown than sign up for immigration. You must know that many people do not have land at all in their hometowns, and once they accept resettlement, they will be able to obtain at least 20 acres of land assisted by the government.

If you want to say that the countryside is difficult to leave, now there is a local concept, but it is not as strong as that of later generations.

If you want to say that there is no pioneering spirit, now is the era when the ancient pre-Qin has just ended, and the spirit of pioneering is still alive.

"In grassland areas such as the Hetao, with big families taking the lead and small households participating, the total number of immigrants reached 400,000 in two years." Zhang Liang said slowly: "Those big families make a living from herding, and the family industry is herding. The empire needs a large number of war horses, and the horses they raise will have a fixed channel to buy. ”

Zhang Liang is only talking about one of the points of immigrating to the grasslands, and there are also new methods of wool production, not only will shepherding war horses be profitable, but sheep herding has also become an attractive industry, not to mention that the northern Xinjiang army will need their meat supply for a long time.

National policies can make people rich or hurt people to go bankrupt, and people who really do big business will always observe the formulation of national policies to determine the direction of development and investment. They may even detect in advance that something is bad and collect their funds and retreat. In ancient times, such a practice has appeared, but the impact is generally regional nature, and the practice is usually just to hold on to funds and shrink the sale of the industrial chain to hoarding, unlike the modern economic circulation is so wide and the exchange of information is so fast, otherwise it will be like the modern large number of businessmen withdrawing from the economy to cause a heavy blow to the region.

As it stands, it has been less than five years since the end of the war. In some places, where people hold money are still closed, and these places are also the slowest regions for economic recovery; In some places, people have found that the general trend caters to the national policy and has made a lot of money from it.

There are places on the grassland that can form benefits for a period of time, and there are naturally more people who are willing to emigrate there, because there are benefits as an attraction. In addition, there is another point, that is, people today are not so unfamiliar with the grassland, you must know that there are not many Yanhuang Miao descendants who are still in a nomadic state, and the people in the northern counties are not afraid to enter the grassland.

Compared with the grassland, southern Xinjiang is a strange place for people. In the past, Chu was regarded as a wild and barbaric land by people from all over the Central Plains, and this reputation lasted for nearly four hundred years.

It was precisely because of the general belief that southern Xinjiang was not a good place that the empire's encouragement of immigrants to southern Xinjiang met with an unexpected cold response, and finally the center discussed it in detail, thinking that there were not two feudal states that needed to be resettled? I simply arranged it all to southern Xinjiang.

Settle Wei Fengguo and Qin Fengguo together in southern Xinjiang? Lu Zheke knows very well that the current wilderness is only a superficial phenomenon, and if it is developed there, mineral resources are everywhere. There is no reason to give up on the yield benefits brought about by local climatic conditions alone.

Considering that the empire occupied Lingnan, it expanded further southwest. It was impossible to cross the land or even the sea for at least a few decades, and it would require unimaginably large manpower and material resources to develop, and finally Lü Zhe approved the resettlement of the Wei feudal state in the area near modern Thailand, rejecting the proposal of the Qin feudal state to settle the South Asian subcontinent in one piece.

Forced migration is not advisable, and once it is done, it is tantamount to creating unrest, and it can only rely on various auxiliary and external benefits to attract people to move voluntarily. At present, there are enough conditions in the grassland to attract immigrants, but it is not so easy in southern Xinjiang.

"At least 20 years, we need to spend 20 years to build a hub transportation so that the southern Xinjiang side can be able to achieve smooth transportation." Zhang Liang is a doctor, and he can say anything about it. "The empire first cleared some of the obstacles to migration," he said. Attract immigrants with the actual results of development," he glanced at Li Si when he said this, and said without giving face at all: "Forced immigration is digging one's own grave." ”

Li Si's reaction was that his cheeks twitched and his eyes narrowed. He knew that Lu Zhe admired Zhang Liang very much, which could be seen from the fact that he only brought Zhang Liang a doctor on the patrol. In addition, he also knew that Lu Zhe intended to cultivate Zhang Liang, otherwise some central decisions would not allow Zhang Liang to have the qualifications to speak.

Forced immigration is not that no government has done it, in fact, not only the previous Great Qin, but also various warring states have done forced immigration, or forced to send troops to let people in a certain place relocate, or use the lottery model to decide the migration, all of which are mandatory to implement the migration policy. In the process, it is not that no one resists or resists, and there is only one action in the face of such a situation, that is, to kill, if it is not enough to kill one person, ten people will be killed, and if ten people are not enough, hundreds of people, and even the whole village will be killed, as long as there is an order in the center, killing can make the order be carried out and do not care about human life at all, among them, the Qin State is the most tough and resolute in execution.

About fifteen years ago, the Qin State also carried out a forced migration, drawing lots from the defeated and destroyed Six Kingdoms to gather people, operated by local county lieutenants, and then sent small officials such as ranks, sifu, and you, and even directly sent county soldiers to escort the gathered people to the south. The people who were forcibly gathered were placed in the Southern Xinjiang Legion led by Tu Sui at that time, and they were uniformly called the soldiers of the Southern Xinjiang Legion to the outside world, but the so-called soldiers were not lacking in women, children, old and young.

Lu Zhe was a first-hand witness to the formation stage of the Southern Xinjiang Army, and he even served as the principal of a place, so he knew more about the composition of the legion soldiers at that time, and knew very well what the so-called Southern Xinjiang Army was.

What is the situation of Tu Sui's Southern Xinjiang Army? There are only a small number of Qin soldiers who are "upright and young", forty percent are prisoners of war from the six countries, and more than fifty percent are forcibly relocated families. The Qin people existed as officers in the Southern Xinjiang Army, especially the senior officers were all Qin people, and only below the rank of 100 generals would there be prisoners of war from the six countries who were transferred to serve as officers.

At that time, the repercussions caused by the Great Qin in drawing lots in various places were very large, and there were countless fugitives from all over the country, because of the tyranny of the officials during the execution and I don't know how many people died, which made the leaders of the six countries who already had the hatred of destroying the country hate the Qin State even more, which directly led to the support of the old nobles of the Six Kingdoms from more people, and the subsequent riots and restoration of the country had a greater foundation.

Whether it is the original history or Lu Zhe's version of Daqin, it is not a temporary decline and destruction, it is caused by a series of national policies and actions, and there are already lessons from the past, and only Li Si, who deliberately wants to attract Lu Zhe's attention, will take the risk of making such a suggestion.

Li Si didn't pay attention to the various eyes of the people around him, he pulled his beard and smiled: "The empire is already implementing the policy of exile of criminals, and wants to use this method to enrich the sparsely populated area, but it is slightly inappropriate to do so. ”

Then Li Si began to talk about why it was inappropriate, talking about the nature of criminals, southern Xinjiang will inevitably be full of criminals for a long time in the future, and public security will reduce the credibility of the government, and the investment in management is unimaginable. He said unabashedly: "They are all criminals, they must be dissatisfied or resentful of the empire, the emotions of this generation will be passed on to the next generation, the southern Xinjiang is full of people who are dissatisfied with the empire, will the empire's rule over there be stable?" ”

Lu Zhe listened very carefully, the reason why he agreed to exile the criminals to southern Xinjiang was because there were too few people who voluntarily migrated, and in addition, Lingnan was a place where criminals were exiled in all dynasties, and the various dynasties did not suffer any evil consequences because of this practice, so they did not care so much.

"It's all criminals, and the good family will worry about whether they can live in peace after the past...... Li Si glanced at everyone present and said: "Is there such a reason for the poor effect of immigration in southern Xinjiang?" (To be continued.) )