Chapter 66 Resettlement of refugees
What's more, people's abilities are not static like in games. Instead, they can always grow as long as they are exercised.
Those first-rate scholars with great abilities were not born with such abilities. On the one hand, they had better learning opportunities, and on the other hand, they had better opportunities to practice.
Therefore, Zheng Xiaoming believes that as long as he gives his subordinates the opportunity to practice, they will always produce some first-class talents!
Liu Bang came from a prosperous background, and the people who followed him, such as Xiao He, Cao Shen and Fan Kuai, were just petty officials butchering dogs at first, but later they became the founding generals of the Han Dynasty.
The abilities of these people are naturally honed through a long period of experience!
Of course, the training opportunity given by Zheng Xiaoming was definitely not for the scholars in Donghai, but for his own team. Zheng Yun and other personal guards whom he trained himself, as well as those Yin and Deng clans who followed from Nanyang
, Li, Fan and other descendants of the old surname.
The first thing Zheng Xiaoming did when he came to power was to reclaim wasteland and resettle the refugees.
This era of the Eastern Han Dynasty has entered a little ice age. Various natural and man-made disasters continued, resulting in refugees everywhere.
Except for a few of these refugees who were accepted by some powerful families and became child servants, the rest gathered into large and small groups of thieves, called gang thieves.
These people are also a serious problem for the local people!
This is the biggest reason why people like Wang Lang are not so opposed to Zheng Xiaoming coming to the East China Sea to be the governor! You know, Zheng Xiaoming has a reputation as a famous general.
Therefore, as soon as Zheng Xiaoming's decree came out, it immediately received support from all the major families in Donghai County.
Even Zheng Xiaoming forced some wealthy families from various places to use part of their land to secretly relocate the refugees, and also asked these people to use food and money to support the expenses of resettling the refugees.
Upon hearing this, the Mi family immediately donated 30,000 acres of land, 50 million yuan, and a large amount of grain, cattle, farm tools and other materials without saying a word.
The scholars headed by Wang Lang also remained silent, which was regarded as acquiescence. They also cooperated in all aspects!
It has to be said that the nobles at this time were still somewhat discerning. They knew clearly that if these refugees were not resettled, something big would happen sooner or later!
What's more, at this time, there were still quite a lot of upright nobles, but in fact, they didn't think much of the powerful people who occupied land and bought slaves.
The style of gentry such as the Hongnong Yang family who did not manage land and put morality first was not uncommon among the gentry.
Even in another historical time and space, Wang Lang and Wang Jingxing, who were scolded by Zhuge Kongming as "I have never seen such a shameless person", were actually people with quite good personal ethics and were very talented in both academic attainments and administrative skills.
Therefore, Zheng Xiaoming's decree was silently supported by the nobles of the East China Sea.
Of course, although the nobles were a little unscrupulous, seeing the general trend like this, they could only hold their noses and admit it!
However, it is different for those local powerful people! Many of these people are blind and only care about the one-third of an acre of land in their own homes and don't care about anything else. When they heard Zheng Xiaoming asking for money, it was as if they were asking for money.
They all had the same fate, but everyone ignored them, and even openly resisted the envoys sent by Zheng Xiaoming.
So Zheng Xiaoming raised the butcher's knife without hesitation and slaughtered the Yin family, a powerful family in Tan County.
The fortress built by the Yin family was extremely strong and famous far and wide. There were thousands of soldiers in the family and they were very powerful.
However, Zheng Xiaoming only sent out 500 soldiers and horses under his command. It only took half a day to break the Yin family's fort, kill the Yin family, and demote the rest to official slaves and send them to mines. .
The huge wealth, land, and population accumulated by the Yin family over hundreds of years suddenly fell into Zheng Xiaoming's hands.
All of them were taken out by Zheng Xiaoming to resettle the refugees. Even the hundreds of Yin family’s apprentices and servants were all assigned fields by Zheng Xiaoming and resettled!
With the example of the Yin family, the other powerful families in Donghai County were immediately frightened and began to cooperate and obey.
Just kidding, Zheng Xiaoming controls administrative power and force, and the nobles control public opinion.
Although the gentry have not directly expressed their support for Zheng Xiaoming's decree, they are supportive in private.
In this way, public opinion will not object.
Under such circumstances, how can those powerful and wealthy people in the countryside make a comeback?
At the same time, the strong combat effectiveness displayed by Zheng Xiaoming's troops really frightened everyone in Donghai County!
The Yin family's Wubao in Tan County was built by the Yin family at no expense. The Wubao was entirely made of rammed earth. It was three feet high and one foot six wide. It was much stronger than the walls of most county towns.
However, in just half a day, Zheng Xiaoming's army directly attacked the city, captured the city gate, and beheaded the head of the Yin family.
By the way, among them, Tai Shici, who had recently joined Zheng Xiaoming, was the first to arrive, and he also made great achievements right from the start. It proved that he was indeed qualified to be appointed as the sect governor!
The combat effectiveness of Zheng Xiaoming's army is really appalling.
After this incident, Wang Lang and many other scholars also had subtle changes in their attitude towards Zheng Xiaoming, and they began to be more inclined to cooperate with Zheng Xiaoming.
In today's chaotic world, if you want to protect your hometown, you need a military strongman like Zheng Xiaoming to take charge. Cooperating with Zheng Xiaoming is beneficial and harmless. As for the disputes between ancient and modern times, and the fact that Zheng Xiaoming is a relative of the eunuch, on the contrary You can put it aside for now!
Of course, they still have to keep looking at the situation and see how Zheng Xiaoming will manage in the future.
Sometimes, government orders are good, but the key is to see the implementation.
Now they want to see how far Zheng Xiaoming will go in resettling the refugees?
What's more, the scholars' view of the eunuchs' relatives has always been that these people are here to take advantage of the land for corruption. Many people don't believe that Zheng Xiaoming will sincerely resettle the refugees. He must be using this excuse to make money for himself. money.
This is also the reason why the scholars have been silent and have not expressed support for Zheng Xiaoming's decree.
After seeing that Zheng Xiaoming captured the Yin family and used all the Yin family's huge wealth to resettle the refugees, the attitudes of these scholars began to slowly change. They felt that Zheng Xiaoming might be sincerely preparing to start a career.
Resettlement of refugees.
As a result, the scholars' cooperation became more active and they began to actively use various influences to help Zheng Xiaoming resettle the refugees.
In fact, Zhao Hong, the commander of Nanyang Huangjin Canal at the time, had no problem with what Zheng Xiaoming said. In this era, there were still a lot of wastelands that were not cultivated.
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