Chapter 506: Borrowing Population
He waved his hand, signaling the dancer to leave.
The Western Regions is a great place. Not only are the fruits and vegetables sweet, but there are also so many beautiful girls with graceful figures who are good at singing and dancing.
Although Gongsun Zan is careless, Fa Zheng is a man who knows how to handle things.
After enjoying the Western Regions, he recruited many beautiful girls from various countries to offer to Tian Ze. After all, he received a lot of help from Tian Ze, and his future development also depended on Tian Ze.
Gongsun Zan really had nothing that Tian Ze would be interested in, except for the Ferghana horses from Dayuan, so the only thing that would be appropriate was to present some beautiful girls.
Exotic customs, unique flavor.
Tian Ze increasingly felt that it was too comfortable to subdue these princes and then send them out to expand the territory.
Compared to him who had to take care of the rear and worry about food and grass when he went on an expedition, Gongsun Zan and Lu Bu simply took root where they were and developed wherever they fought.
Although logistics, population and other matters still need to be taken care of by ourselves, the efficiency has been greatly improved and a lot of energy has been saved with a clear division of labor between the two parties.
He hardly had to put in any effort. He just had to send the captured foreigners to the construction site, exchange them for supplies from the Han people, and then send them back.
Even though Tian Ze was busy with his own internal affairs and the pacification of the Central Plains, he did not delay this transaction.
Due to the limitations of this era, if we want to develop rapidly, someone must sacrifice.
Qin Shihuang and Emperor Yang of Sui, one built the Great Wall and the Straight Road, and the other built the Grand Canal. These are magnificent undertakings that were accomplished in their own time and will benefit future generations.
But behind this are the corpses of countless civilians.
Tian Ze has much more to do than them, but he can't bear to exploit the people's power, so he can only make the foreigners suffer.
Even though Tian Ze treated him well, there were still hundreds of thousands of aliens who died of exhaustion or illness every year because of Tian Ze's infrastructure projects.
Tian Ze also felt very sorry about this.
Tian Ze didn't feel bad if millions of these foreigners died, but they mainly delayed his project! How could he bear to let the Han people take the blame?
One of these foreign slaves could do as much work as two Han people.
After all, they are not our own people, so there is no psychological pressure to exploit them, and there is no scruples when it comes to working overtime.
If you are a Han Chinese, you also have to consider treatment and family issues. You cannot delay farming or overwork yourself to avoid getting sick.
Therefore, Tian Ze has always attached great importance to these foreign slaves.
Chen Gong looks like a gentle man, but he is not polite at all when attacking these foreign races.
Because the project was tight and the task was heavy, these aliens were given a lot of pressure, and they did not hesitate to exchange the deaths of hundreds of thousands of aliens every year for the rapid development of water conservancy and engineering in various places.
And this was after Chen Gong had some control after estimating the number of slaves that Lu Bu and Gongsun Zan could provide.
Now Chen Gong is shouting that there is no one, and it is obvious that he wants Tian Ze to "add more burden" to these princes outside.
"Gongtai, tell me, where have you taken a fancy to now?" Tian Ze said lazily.
Now he has a feeling of ruling by doing nothing.
All the stuff in his stomach had been almost completely emptied out over the years, and now Da Qi was completely on the right track. He didn't have to worry about it at all, as Chen Gong and others would take the initiative to push Da Qi forward.
Chen Gong coughed lightly with some embarrassment, and then said: "Your Majesty, the southern part of Yizhou is extremely vast, and there are nearly ten million foreign tribes."
Speaking of this, Chen Gong's eyes were full of excitement.
Now we have the money and food, all we need is these slaves.
The population under Tian Ze's rule is not small now, especially the annual population growth is also very large.
Even if part of the people have to be relocated and handed over to "workers" such as Lu Bu and Gongsun Zan, there is still a net increase of nearly five million.
Having tasted the sweetness, Chen Gong no longer cares much about the population of the Central Plains princes. It doesn't matter if there are more or less people, it's better to use them as capital.
Let these people go out and develop the "market", and they will soon be able to earn back several times the money.
It’s okay for Lu Bu and Gongsun Zan nowadays.
One reason is that because there is another empire, the Kushan Empire, nearby, they cannot make any moves that are too ostentatious, so as not to arouse vigilance, and can only do small-scale actions.
Another thing is that during the process of expanding northward, the soldiers gradually found it difficult to bear the local cold and made slow progress. Moreover, these places were vast and sparsely populated, so the population was really small.
But it’s different in the southeast of Yizhou!
That was a chaotic place. The overall strength of the nearby Sindhu seemed to be similar to that of the Kushans, but the two could not be compared at all.
Sindhu’s mobilization capabilities were too poor, just like the Chu State during the Warring States Period, which appeared extremely powerful on paper but was not the case in reality.
Moreover, Sindhu was resisting the invasion of Kushan and could not take care of them at all.
Liu Fan can develop in this area without any worries.
"You can't become fat in one bite." Tian Ze sighed.
"Liu Fan has only one million people under his command, and the roads between Yizhou and the southeast have not yet been repaired. The speed of population transportation is too slow and the risks are too great. All these will take time..."
Although Liu Fan and others are treated as "workers", the boss Tian Ze still has some conscience. He does not blindly exploit them, but instead pursues a win-win situation.
In this "business", he did less work but got more.
Others are working hard outside while you are lying down at home and enjoying yourself. You get 80% of the money they earn, so you should be content.
Therefore, Tian Ze is still very concerned about Liu Fan's development. He doesn't push him too hard and really hopes that he can grow.
After all, there are still many enemies in the west waiting for him to deal with.
"Your Majesty, it's actually not a problem!" Chen Gong said.
"What can you do?"
Chen Gong said bluntly: "Your Majesty, you should know the fighting power of the tribes in the southeast. Liu Fan can definitely deal with them. It's just that the population is insufficient, making it difficult to occupy and manage."
"In that case, why can't we lend him some people in advance? We can lend him a million people, and then pay them back after Liu Fan has captured enough aliens."
"Where can I find these one million people? How can I send them to him?" Tian Ze said helplessly.
Population migration is never an easy matter.
"Attachment to one's home" and "affection towards migration" are as important as Mount Tai in this era.
The reason why Tianze was able to migrate a large population was because those people were refugees who were far away from their hometowns and had no one to rely on.
Once they have taken root in a place, it will be difficult for Tianze to move after ten or twenty years.
Even in modern times, there are still so many people who would rather live a hard life and live in the mountains with inconvenient transportation, let alone the people of this era.
If it is not necessary, Tianze will not relocate the population on a large scale.
Generally, they would only take the opportunity to use the local powerful families as a black glove to carry out a population migration quickly and easily when they conquer other places.
With the influence of the powerful families in Yizhou, it would not be a problem to slowly migrate hundreds of thousands of people out of Yizhou over a long period of time. However, Chen Gong asked for a million people, and the development of Yizhou would inevitably be seriously affected.
Moreover, given the current transportation conditions in Yizhou and the southeast area, it is impossible to deliver it in a short period of time.
(End of this chapter)
