The Eldest Daughter Is Beautiful and Saucy
Chapter 1190: settle down
Chapter 1190 Settlement
Zhao Sheng was extremely happy, as if he had already secured victory.
Bai Qingyan smiled and nodded to Zhao Sheng, then asked, “General Zhao, have you paid attention on your way here… in the Xiliang city that our Great Zhou has captured, how are the officials in the government implementing the new policies?”
Zhao Sheng’s expression was a little unnatural when he mentioned this. He raised his hand and touched his nose, then told Bai Qing the truth: “Many people in Xiliang ran away when they knew that the Great Zhou army was coming to take over the city…”
Zhao Sheng did not dare to say that the reason these people ran away was because the people of Xiliang had not forgotten that Bai Qingyan had burned to death 100,000 surrendered prisoners of Xiliang in the Battle of Wengshan. Therefore, the people of Xiliang were afraid that after the Great Zhou army arrived, they would be killed, so they ran away.
Bai Qingyan nodded: “It’s good to run away…”
Zhao Sheng was surprised when he heard this. He turned his head to look at Yang Wuce, and then looked at Bai Qingyan: “What does your majesty mean?”
Yang Wuce hurriedly told Zhao Sheng about Bai Qingyan’s policy towards the people of Xiliang in Yecheng Pass, and Zhao Sheng suddenly understood…
“In that case, Lord Wei, the Minister of Revenue, will certainly not come to Your Majesty to cry about being poor!” Zhao Sheng smiled.
Bai Qingyan nodded with a smile: “We will definitely make the people of Xiliang become citizens of the Great Zhou, but we cannot give them preferential treatment just because they have just been incorporated into the Great Zhou nationality, so that the people of Xiliang will feel that… they can live on the relief of the court anyway, and then live a lazy life.”
“Your Majesty is right! Now that they know that they cannot survive as citizens of Xiliang and must become citizens of the Great Zhou to survive, we must let them move on their own and be self-sufficient.”
When Zhao Sheng was in Liang State, he was also sent out to provide disaster relief. Later, the fertile farmland was destroyed and the people could only rely on the food and salary allocated by the court to survive for more than a year. Then some of the people became lazy, and then… the originally hardworking people followed suit. In the end, the fertile land was left abandoned there. The court had to allocate food and salary every year, and finally the land, which was originally the granary of Daliang, became a burden to the court.
Therefore, Bai Qingyan’s move can be said to be very necessary.
“After this first batch of refugees enter the city, more refugees from Xiliang will soon come to seek refuge in the Great Zhou.” Bai Qingyan said slowly, “By then, Yechengguan will be full of them, and I can take them with me when I return to the capital. I will settle these refugees in various cities along the way, give them new homes… new land, and let them feel at ease to become the people of the Great Zhou, and live and work in peace from now on.”
Zhao Sheng nodded.
“General Zhao just arrived today. He will take a day’s rest and lead his troops out early tomorrow morning…” Bai Qing said.
Hearing that he was going to lead his troops to fight, Zhao Sheng was full of strength and clasped his fists and said, “Yes!”
After watching Bai Qingyan walk away, Yang Wuce pulled Zhao Sheng to sit with him. In fact, he wanted to show off to Zhao Sheng the battles he had fought with Bai Qingyan.
After these battles, Yang Wuce was completely impressed by Bai Qingyan, and he understood why the Zhao army always lost to the Bai army when Daliang was still around.
Among the generals of the Bai family, Bai Qingyan is good at fighting and adept at deploying troops and making plans. The other young generals of the Bai family are all heroes. Even the youngest, the seventh girl of the Bai family, is a little Zhuge Liang, not to mention the other generals of the Bai family!
Yang Wuce felt that the seventh girl of the Bai family was so capable at such a young age. She would be another Bai Qingyan when she grew up.
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In the next few days, more and more refugees from Xiliang flocked to Yechengguan. The people in the city were terrified when they saw people kneeling at the gate every day begging to enter the city. The houses in Yechengguan were already full and the land had been divided.
Just when the people of Xiliang thought that the next few people would not be able to enter the city, Bai Qingyan decided to leave General Yang Wuce to lead the troops to guard Yecheng Pass, while she led the troops and the refugees to Suining City, Fengerlan City, Gyantse City and other cities to settle down.
Zhao Sheng paid close attention as he passed by several cities. These cities were almost empty. Instead of moving the people of the Great Zhou here, it would be better to settle the refugees from Xiliang there.
This also conveyed a message to the people of Xiliang, that is, the sooner they became citizens of the Great Zhou, the more benefits they would get. Not only could they get disaster relief grain from the Great Zhou to prevent them from starving to death, but they could also get houses and fields. Such a good thing… was a great thing for the people of Xiliang who had experienced famine and the Xiliang court could not provide disaster relief grain, but instead had to snatch grain from the people as military rations.
How could they remain loyal to Xiliang when the Xiliang court didn’t care about their lives? Naturally, they would become citizens of whoever could guarantee them enough food and clothing, and would recognize whoever was their emperor.
The refugees from Xiliang followed the army of Da Zhou and set off for the next city. Before departure, the generals of Da Zhou made it very clear to the refugees that no matter which city in Xiliang these refugees were originally from, now to Da Zhou… they were all refugees from Xiliang who were about to enter Da Zhou cities but had not yet officially become citizens of Da Zhou.
They will go to whichever city the Great Zhou arranges them to. Those who don’t want to leave can leave now. However, as long as they follow the Great Zhou, they must obey the arrangements of the Great Zhou, otherwise they will be expelled from the territory of the Great Zhou.
The main reason was that they were afraid that some of these refugees would come out of Suining City and want to return to their homes but were unwilling to write an IOU to the government office.
In fact, as long as they can have food to eat and are not starving to death, these hungry people don’t care about the condition of their houses. If there are no people left, the houses will still be given to others to live in.
Soon, after Bai Qingyan handed over Yecheng Pass to Bai Qingyun and Yang Wuce, he set out for Suining City with his army and Xiliang refugees.
These refugees from Xiliang had seen the land and houses that the people of Yechengguan had obtained under the new policies of the Great Zhou Dynasty. They knew the national policies of the Great Zhou Dynasty that benefited the country and the people. With their eyes on the future, they followed the army and marched towards Suining City in a mighty manner.
After the army arrived at Suining City, Bai Qingyan discovered that half of the city was indeed empty.
Before the Bai family army attacked Suining City, more than half of the people with their families had already left. Later… when the Bai family army captured Suining City and went to attack Yechengguan, the people in the city saw that the Great Zhou army did not stop them from leaving. They thought that while the Great Zhou was still going to attack Yechengguan and had no time to deal with them, ordinary people, many of them also left with various excuses.
Naturally, the general guarding the city received Bai Qingyan’s order and did not stop the ordinary people who wanted to leave Suining City. Now when his son saw Bai Qingyan coming back with a large group of people, and heard that Bai Qingyan wanted to register the people into the household registration of the Great Zhou, General Cheng was a little confused.
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