Established a thousand-year family from the end of Qin Dynasty

Chapter 153

"Everyone's suggestions are reasonable, but what we are most lacking now is not fields, but population."

"There are too many diseases overseas, and the death rate is too high. Out of ten pioneers, only three or four can survive to become tenant farmers."

"We could do this when there were refugees all over the place, but now that there are no refugees, will the family's finances be able to bear it? Could it be that we used up our family property to go to the Central Plains to buy people? So it is not appropriate to open up Weaver Girl Island!"

Patriarch Wang Hongyin slowly explained that now the tyrants are generally short of people, and there is a shortage of tenant farmers.

"Therefore, I think Peach Blossom Island should be the first goal to facilitate the resumption of trade with the Central Plains in the future, but Peach Blossom Island is too small, and there is still an open space to build a port. It is estimated that the entire island can only be cultivated for about [-] acres. There is only enough fertile land for a hundred tenant farmers."

"Therefore, while reclaiming Peach Blossom Island, conquer and reclaim Mahan, which is relatively closer."

"Although we don't have slaves anymore, we still have about [-] tenant farmers in Liaodong, and we will gradually move these tenants to Mahan to open up wasteland, and the vacated fertile land in Liaodong, especially Luoyueyuan, can be built into urban areas in the future. "

After Wang Hongyin finished speaking, he drank a cup of hot tea. He had a bigger plan in mind, which was to destroy all the farmland in the Luoyueyuan area and the Taohuayuan area, and transform it into an urban area that could accommodate a large number of people.

And arrange a large number of handicraft workshops, there are citizens who specialize in workshop work and belong to the Wang family, build a prosperous port city, and come to a small Chang'an in Liaodong.

Therefore, the local tenant farmers in Liaodong, such as Luoyueyuan and Taohuayuan, will migrate out sooner or later. Now that there are not enough people to open up wasteland overseas, then these local tenant farmers in Liaodong who are farming will be relocated overseas to open up wasteland, freeing up land to build a family exclusively for the royal family. City.

He called this plan in his mind the "big construction" plan.

The wealth that this plan needs to consume is massive, and it is naturally impossible to build it with the current strength of the Wang family.

But Chang'an was not built in a day. As long as you work hard, accumulate every day, and build a little bit every year, after decades or even hundreds of years, it will always be completed.

The Patriarch opened his mouth, and what he said made sense, so everyone naturally did not disagree.

In the end, the direction of the family's overseas development was determined, that is, to open up wasteland in the nearest Mahan area, and at the same time, to open up wasteland in Taohua Island, which is very close to Liaoxi County.

Although there are various diseases in the land reclamation in Mahan, compared with the Japanese people, the diseases are less, and the death rate is relatively lower. Probably five out of ten land reclamators can survive.

To the north of Mahan is the original Zhenfan County of Dahan (now merged into Lelang County), to the east is Muhan, to the west is the Yinmin Islands reclaimed by the Wang family, and to the south is Penglai Island (Jeju Island) reclaimed by the Wang family. Island), and to the southeast is Amandao Island (Tsushima Island), which has been reclaimed by the Wang family.

The boundary line between Mahan and Dahan Lelang County is Zhenfan River, the north of Zhenfan River is Han, and the south of Zhenfan River is Han.

The first land reclamation site that the Wang family planned to establish was chosen on the south bank of Zhenfan River (Han River, South Korea) (Incheon, South Korea).

This place is close to the Zhenfan River, so there is plenty of water, and across the river is Lelang County of Dahan, maybe you can secretly engage in some smuggling trade, and at the same time, it is relatively close to the Wang family, so it is convenient to replenish supplies, and the Wang family fleet can also Along the river, one after another was established to open up wasteland.

"Since everyone has no objection to land reclamation Ma Han, then this second bill is also over." Wang Xiaoqian coughed after she finished speaking. Cattle, any cattle slaughter needs to be reported to the Jiacheng in advance, and after consulting the Jiacheng’s consent, then the opinions of the three family ministers are sought, and the farm cattle can only be slaughtered after the three family ministers agree.”

"In the future, you will not be allowed to slaughter cattle without authorization. Anyone who slaughters cattle without authorization will be directly sentenced to death if he is not a child of the Wang family. If he is a child of the Wang family, he will be fined and locked up!"

In the past, Wangjiatian had fewer cattle and more cattle, so they never protected the cattle, and they ate them whenever they wanted.

However, as the Wang family reclaimed more and more fertile fields overseas, there gradually appeared a situation where there were more fields and fewer cattle.

Therefore, after discussing with the three family elders, Jiacheng Wang Xiaoqian decided to ban the slaughter of cattle and submitted it to the family meeting.

Regarding this proposal, all the children of the family have no objection.

It's nothing more than not eating beef. In the future, you can eat mutton. For the future of the family and to be able to better reclaim wasteland, you can resist not eating beef.

Regarding the third proposal, all the children of the family raised their hands in agreement, but no one spoke.

"In this case, the third bill is also passed." After Wang Xiaoqian finished speaking, she drank a cup of tea to moisten her throat, and then continued: "Then, the fourth bill is..."

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When the Wang family was still holding a family meeting, a group of Huns were heading south.

It was Hu Hanxie Shanyu who led these Huns to the south.

Roughly since Liu Xun took power and changed his name, the Xiongnu fell into continuous civil war.

Perhaps God is also blessing Emperor Liu Xun, or perhaps it is the crimes brought about by Emperor Wu's military arrogance that are in the present and benefit in the future.

In recent years, there have been many heavy snow disasters in Mobei. The Xiongnu, which had lost half of its population due to the Han-Hungarian War, lost nearly half of its population under the continuous snow disasters.

The current Xiongnu, even if it is only [-] cavalry, it is difficult to mobilize, and the power of the whole country is only a little bit stronger than Wusun.

Going south, you can't get back to Monan, and going west, you want to fight the Western Regions, but you are beaten by Wusun. The Xianbei Wuhuan in the east are all adjacent to poor villages, and Ding Ling in the north goes south from time to time to rob them.

In such a situation of internal and external troubles, the Xiongnu still got involved because of insufficient resources.

When external expansion fails, internal struggles will become more intense. This is true no matter which regime is in place, as is the case in the Central Plains and grasslands.

When the cake is not big, internal conflicts will become more and more intense in order to divide the existing cake.

Various royal courts fought for the position of Shan Yu, and the civil war in the Mobei Grassland was extremely enjoyable.

However, Liu Xun, the emperor of the Han Dynasty in the south, took advantage of the civil war between the Huns and swallowed up the entire Western Regions.

As for the civil strife in the entire Xiongnu, it originated from the arrogant son of the emperor and the Hou Shanyu.

When Qiahou Shanyu came to the throne, it happened to be in the late period of Emperor Wu. Under the leadership of Qiahou Shanyu, the Xiongnu defeated the Han army many times, recaptured Mobei and Damo, captured Li Ling and Li Guangli, and forcibly detained Su Wu , the Xiongnu seem to be about to revive.

However, Hou Shanyu died of illness, and King Zuoxian, who was supposed to take the throne, was too far away. The Xiongnu nobles supported King Zuoxian's younger brother, General Zuo, to take the throne.

After King Zuo Xian returned to Shan Yu's court, General Zuo gave the seat of Shan Yu to his elder brother, King Zuo Xian.

After ascending the throne, King Zuoxian called himself Hulugu Shanyu, and promised to pass on the title of Chanyu to his younger brother Zuo Dajiang's son.

But Hulugu Shanyu went back on his word again, and gave the position of King Zuoxian to his son.

The son of the younger brother, General Zuo, ran to the west in a rage and claimed to be the king of the sun, and then he joined the big man.

When Hulugu Shanyu was seriously ill, Da Yan and Zhuan Qu Yan secretly planned to murder the respected Captain Zuo in order to ensure that King Zuo Xian would ascend the throne.

After the conspiracy was revealed, Captain Zuo ran to the east to stand on his own in a rage.

Soon after, Aunt Hulu Shanyu died of illness. Originally, Shanyu's position should have belonged to his son King Zuoxian.

But Aunt Hulu Shanyu felt that her son was too young to restrain the nobles of the Xiongnu, so she passed the throne to her other younger brother, King Youguli.

Zhuanquyan family tampered with Hulugu Shanyu's edict, made Hulugu Shanyu's other younger son Zuoguli King as Shanyu, that is, his own son, and murdered Youguli King.

And this new Shanyu was Hu Yanda Shanyu, who died in the same year as Huo Guang.

At the same time, the younger brother of the murdered King Youguli ran out to become independent, wanting to avenge his brother.

At the same time, King Zuo Xian of Hulugu Shanyu was very dissatisfied with the present Shan Yuting because his inheritance rights were deprived, so he formed an alliance with the younger brother of King Youguli to resist Hu Yanda Shanyu together. .

During the period of Hu Yanda Shanyu, the Dayan clan was actually in power, which was equivalent to the Xiongnu version of Empress Lu, and this period was also equivalent to the rebellion of Empress Lu during the Xiongnu period.

The Da Yan family kept attacking the Xiongnu nobles who refused to obey him, which made the already unstable Xiongnu even more panicked. Some Xiongnu nobles ran out to become kings on their own and no longer obeyed Shan Yuting's orders.

In order to reunite the hearts of the Huns, the Da Yan clan ordered an attack on the Han Dynasty.

At that time, the big man was busy recuperating and had not fought for many years. He was caught off guard by the Huns and was robbed by the Huns of thousands of Han people as slaves.

Having tasted the sweetness, the Da Yan family ordered to attack the Wusun Kingdom in the Western Regions and occupy the Cheshi Kingdom. After that, the Wusun Kingdom and Princess Jieyou asked the Han for help, and the Han sent 17 cavalry to the Northern Expedition.

Hu Yanda Shanyu ran to beat Wusun, but Wusun beat him violently, so he fled back to Shanyuting.

As a result, Wusun also took the opportunity to attack Youxian Wangting, and Wuhuan and Ding Ling took the opportunity to plunder the Xiongnu.

Hu Yanda Shanyu, who had just fled back to Shanyuting, was defeated by Wuhuan and Dingling, and continued to flee north.

As a result, there was a heavy snowstorm on the way to escape, and most of the main force of the Huns were frozen to death.

Moreover, the Xiongnu herdsmen hiding in Langjuxu Mountain were also caught by Wang Hongnian, and more than 1 unarmed Xiongnu herdsmen were all slaughtered by Wang Hongnian.

It is no wonder that the 17 Han cavalry could not find the main force of the Huns. It turned out that the main force of the Huns was frozen to death by the heavy snowstorm.

Soon after, Hu Yanda Shanyu died Yuyu, and Xulu Quanqu Shanyu came to the throne.

Xulu Quanqu Shanyu deliberately neglected the new Dayan family, because the new Dayan family was a relative of the old Dayan family. (In fact, it is the Xiongnu version of the dispute between the emperor and his relatives)
Zuo Daqiequ, the patriarch of the old Dayan family, was very dissatisfied with Xulu Quanqu Chanyu (equivalent to King Zhou You's favoring Baosi, which caused Marquis Shen's dissatisfaction).

Because the Xiongnu kept fighting among themselves and always encountered heavy snowstorms, and Ding Ling, Wuhuan, and Wusun often robbed the Xiongnu, the Xiongnu in the time of Xulu Quanqu Shanyu was already very weak, let alone a showdown with the big man. Even Wusun couldn't beat him.

At this moment, the Huns are no different from refugees, and many Hun soldiers can't eat enough to eat, so Xulu Quanqu Shanyu wants to restore peace and peaceful coexistence with the big man.

Zuo Daqiequ was dissatisfied with Xulu Quanqu Shanyu's neglect of his family, so he wanted to deliberately destroy the marriage between the Han and the Huns, so he took more than 1 Huns soldiers to plunder the Han land.

But the Xiongnu soldiers who didn’t have enough to eat didn’t want to fight at all. They were so hungry that they couldn’t even fight the Han’s county soldiers, so they surrendered to the Han as soon as they reached the border. Soldiers, at least as slaves in a big man can have enough food.

Emperor Liu Xun carried out "peaceful evolution" for the Xiongnu, constantly promoting the rich life of the Han to the Huns, and luring those Xiongnu who were not full to eat to go to the Han to become farmers in the Han and become self-cultivators of the Han.

Xulu Quanqu had no choice but to attack the Han Dynasty continuously, trying to destroy the "peaceful evolution" of the Han emperor.

But every time they arrived at the border of the Han Dynasty, the Xiongnu soldiers who couldn't eat enough to eat rebelled collectively and surrendered directly to the Han Dynasty.

The Xiongnu's many attacks all collapsed on their own, and the big man didn't even dispatch a single soldier.

The pursuit of a prosperous life is the common ground of all people in the world.

This is true of the Han people, and so is the Huns.

In the past, the Xiongnu could rely on plunder to pursue wealth, but with the change of power between the Han and Huns, the way to become rich through plunder was cut off.

The Huns had no choice but to find other ways to become rich. It happened that Emperor Liu Xun of the Han Dynasty was engaged in "peaceful evolution", so the Huns went south and surrendered directly.

This is actually the same as the people in the Central Plains. If they can farm safely and get rich, they will farm with peace of mind. If the ruler is too bastard, so that they cannot enjoy a stable life in farming, they will naturally become vagrants and bandits to rob everywhere.

Human nature is like this, no matter the grassland or the Central Plains.

Because there were too many Hun refugees, the prime minister of the Han Dynasty even suggested building a separation wall on the Han-Hungary border to prevent the Hun refugees from entering the Han land. After all, the Han did not want to spend money to support too many poor ghosts.

However, this suggestion was rejected by Liu Xun. Liu Xun welcomed all the Huns who entered the Han area, and moved these Hun refugees to counties with fewer people and more land to reclaim wasteland, making these Huns become self-cultivators of the Han Dynasty. Increase the tax base for the big man.

Some tyrants who couldn't afford the tenants took the opportunity to plunder the Huns refugees as their own tenants. Although the Huns refugees were inefficient in farming, they were cheap!

In the face of money, everyone forgets about the difference between Han, Hun, Hua and Barbarians.

After the death of Xulu Quanqu Shanyu, the Xiongnu became even more chaotic.

Five Chanyus appeared in the entire Mobei Grassland, and they all claimed that they were the orthodox, and a Xiongnu version of the Spring and Autumn Five Hegemons came.

After fighting and fighting, Hu Hanxie Shanyu finally became the winner, defeated the other four Shanyus, and became the only Shanyu.

However, as soon as he became Shan Yu, King Zuo Xian rebelled and defeated him.

King Zuoxian usurped the throne and made Shanyu, which became Zhizhi Shanyu.

The defeated Hu Hanxie had no choice but to go all the way south to surrender to the big man and beg the big man to take him in.

But Zhizhi Shanyu, who succeeded in usurping the throne, was afraid that the big man would attack him, so Zhizhi Shanyu didn't even want Mobei, and went directly to Kangju, which was close to the Da Yueshi, to avoid disaster. The farther away from the big man, the better.

In short, for the past few decades, the Xiongnu have been fighting among themselves. The winner will be the Shanyu, and the loser will go south to be a dog for the big man.

The Xiongnu's civil wars that lasted for decades enabled the big man to rest and recuperate for decades. Finally, the country was peaceful and the people were peaceful, and the entire Western Regions were conquered without bloodshed.

(End of this chapter)