The only benefit of the feudal dynasty is probably that the political situation is unimpeded. As the emperor gets angry, it can be said that there are millions of corpses. In a word, the county magistrates in Liaodong and western Liaoning were killed. There were hundreds of people involved in this matter, but none of them were spared. However, the bloody storm that swept over came and went quickly, but more people didn't know how to do whatever they should do at this time.

The two counties are located in a bitter and cold border area, so there is no decent family. The remaining people are even less concerned about the matter of the county magistrate being killed by the emperor. They will not care about any major national affairs. They only care about how many days the rice in the jar is enough to eat, and how long is the grain harvest still a good harvest.

Oil, salt, sauce and vinegar are the real concerns of the people. The rest are basically ignored. Even if you tell him that the emperor is coming, he will not put down his hoe and go to see the emperor.

Leisure days always pass quickly. Yuwen Chengdu, who had time to enjoy the leisurely days, welcomed the imperial order.

"My destiny is to order Yuwen Cheng to take his subordinates to go to Liaodong and western counties, and be fully responsible for the integration of the two counties. I have high hopes to ensure the stability of our borders."

Yuwen Cheng took a few deep breaths, staring straight at the golden silk imperial edict, trying his best to keep calm and not let himself be too excited.

"Finally successful? Finally, it's successful. It took half a year to be a success in gambling with your life."

"Thank you, my emperor, long live my emperor." Yuwen Cheng was so excited that his hands trembled slightly. After receiving the imperial edict solemnly, he opened it and read it word by word to confirm. "Heavenly worked hard, God will not let it go, we have succeeded, Maogong."

"Yes, Chengdu, we succeeded, but this is just the simplest beginning. When you receive the imperial edict, you will be responsible for the safety of hundreds of thousands of people in the northeast. Do you know the sufferings in it?"

Xu Maogong looked calm and indifferent, as if everyone was in his opinion, but his ordinary appearance could be hidden from others, but Yuwen Chengdu, who was extremely familiar with him.

"Of course I know that the heavy responsibilities I bear are far heavier than you said, and the difficulties are ten times more difficult. However, you and my brothers work together and are naturally not afraid of any difficulties and obstacles. But you, boy, are you happy and reveal your happiness. You are only a few of us here. You look like you don't care and regard fame and fortune as dirt. Who are you pretending to show it?"

Yuwen Chengdu handed the imperial edict to Zhao Yun, patted Xu Maogong on the shoulder with a smile, and said.

"Haha, it's fake to say that you are unhappy. We have been planning for several months, and we almost managed to survive. We have difficulties and obstacles and are suffering. Now that we have finally achieved results, how can we be unhappy? Haha..."

Xu Maogong finally couldn't hold on anymore, swaying his simple Jigong-like feather fan and smiling happily.

"Let's go to my room and order some wine and meat, and I'll talk about it when I'm drunk."

Yuwen Cheng threw a few taels of silver to his servants and told him to buy good wine and meat. Then he took the lead and returned to his house.

People feel refreshed when they are happy. Yuwen Chengdu, Xu Maogong, Zhao Yun and Xue Li are naturally extremely happy at this moment, and they are even more desperate when they drink. Needless to say, the two powerful generals Xue Li and Zhao Yun, just do it one jar after another. Even Xu Maogong, a civil servant, was particularly happy today. Yuwen Cheng poured him a cup, and he only drank one cup, and he had basically never been afraid.

After three rounds of dishes, five flavors of wine.

"Chengdu, Liaoning County is now a treasure in his pocket, but the number of thousands of miles of Vasts is less than 600,000, which is sparsely populated. The insufficient population has caused large areas of fertile land to be abandoned. I guess the taxes of the two counties today are probably less than one-tenth of your annual income. With such a sparse population and poor tax revenue, what should we do?"

Xu Maogong drank wine, shook his feather fan, looked at the other three people, and said leisurely.

"Well, there are indeed many problems, but except for the tricky things with a small population, nothing else is worth fearing." Yuwen Cheng said slowly.

"The population is really very difficult, and it cannot be increased just by wanting it. As for the lack of food, it is also troublesome, but at most it is a little troublesome in the first year. Don't forget that Yuwen Cheng has 200,000 sweet potatoes with a yield of 6,000 kilograms per mu. Although 200,000 can only plant about 100 acres in the first year, but in the second year, the sweet potato alone will probably be enough for a million people to a year. If all the output in the previous years have been preserved, then in the seventh and eighth years, he can even feed everyone in the Sui Dynasty with sweet potatoes alone."

The food matter is basically not a problem for Yuwen Cheng, who is rich and powerful, but a small population means low productivity. The maximum recruitment of 600,000 soldiers cannot exceed 30,000. Only 30,000 even if it is only 40,000 troops far away in Heifeng Mountain, it is only 70,000. It would be good if 70,000 troops could defend the border, let alone implement the goal of Yuwen Cheng invading Goguryeo and expeditioning the Fusang Kingdom.

Insufficient population base is the biggest difficulty.

"Hey, take it slowly, I don't believe in land, houses, food, and money, and other things together won't attract people?"

Yuwen Cheng thought about it for a long time but there was no way to take effect immediately. He covered his head and drank, and was depressed.

Conquering the northern nomadic peoples and then using the grassland to herd horses, conquering Goguryeo and then farming, conquering Fusang Kingdom to carry out oceans, and other plans were completely restricted by the shortage of the population base.

"Oh, I will report to the court for military support, otherwise it will be difficult to ensure the stability of the border with our strength. In addition, Zilong, you will lead troops to Liaodong County tomorrow, and I will return to Luoyang City."

"It seems that this is the only way."

Xu Maogong whispered on the side.

"By the way, Maogong, you will look for some blacksmiths and carpenters along the way. As long as you are someone with some skills, remember to threaten and tempt them and bring them to our territory."

"What's the use of you looking for craftsmen in Chengdu?"

Scholars, farmers, industry and commerce, hierarchy.

In ancient times, workers were almost at the bottom of the class, so Xu Maogong really didn’t know what Yuwen Cheng needed these people?

"Hehe, don't worry about that much, just come first, mine depends on theirs."

Yuwen Cheng's eyes were blurred and his cheeks were slightly red. He looked drunk, and his tongue was a little knotted when he spoke.

Despite all the difficulties and hardships of the two counties, they were still very happy to be able to take the position of county magistrates of the two counties, at least they succeeded.

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