Chapter 80 The bigger the territory, the more tired Dazai

Jingchang was completely shut out from the outside world's disturbances. The only thing that made Shen Zhiwei feel real was that a large number of refugees fled into the current territory of Da Zhou every day.

Especially in the north, the original territory of the north was divided up by various countries. Because each country was not very satisfied, there were frequent wars between them. The common people in the north were already suffering a lot, and with the constant wars, they had no choice but to make up their minds to leave their homeland and flee everywhere.

Some fled to Anguo, a small number fled to other countries, and most fled to the territory of Da Zhou.

Resettling the disaster victims was also a big problem. All of the original territory of the Northern Kingdom was taken over by Shen Zhiwei's people. After taking office, the young officials were determined to manage their jurisdiction well. It happened that Jingchang was rich, and the officials were ready to do a big job. As a result, they were caught off guard by this situation that could be called a refugee crisis.

Even if Jingchang has food and money, we cannot rely entirely on Jingchang for support. The local food and money are simply not enough to feed so many excess people.

How to accommodate these refugees who continue to flee has become a common concern for all northern officials.

They tried every possible way to resettle them. At the beginning, they set up many transformation tasks, such as renovating houses, rebuilding roads and bridges, repairing city walls, etc.

But soon, the number of people that could be accommodated in these transformation tasks reached its limit and there was no room for any more.

Officials who have undergone simple training are well aware that when the number of people in a construction task exceeds the upper limit, it means that there will be cheating workers. The existence of such workers is like a bad apple that will spoil the whole bunch. Once the refugees become dissatisfied, it will easily form a bad atmosphere, and the originally stable social order will be quickly destroyed in a short period of time.

When the northern officials thought of the chaotic scene, they became so anxious that their mouths blistered and their eyes turned red with anger.

In the end, they all chose the same solution - to send the person away.

Since they have no way to accommodate the extra population, they can just let those places in the rear where there is a shortage of manpower to accommodate the population.

This is just like the slave trade in the past. If there are too many slaves locally, they will be sent away to places where slaves are needed.

Because most of the refugees were commoners, and those who were not commoners were also registered as commoners, they could not be transported as roughly as slaves. The human traffickers who originally bought and sold slaves had a lot of experience in transporting people for a long time. The officials had an idea and simply let the human traffickers manage the refugee team and transport the victims with better treatment than slaves.

He directly told the human traffickers that since there were too many people dying on the road, he would use his own family members, including himself, to fill the gaps. The human traffickers' attitude towards the victims was better than that towards their own fathers.

When Qiong Yu heard that the victims were being sent here, she was the first to respond actively and asked to send the victims to Yongming City. Yongming City now needs manpower everywhere. When Gui Yang was there, many buildings had not been completed.

For example, there is a market town similar to Jingchang, which also exists in Yongming City. When Guiyang built it, it was mainly used for testing, so the area of ​​the market town was not large. At that time, some local big families came out to block it. After being stopped, Guiyang was not so enthusiastic about this kind of infrastructure, so what Qiongyu took over was a test area.

The test results have come out a long time ago. The market town is really suitable for the city. The current peace and prosperity of Yongming City is inseparable from the market town, so she urgently needs to expand the market town and the city, which requires a large population.

Where would so many people come from in Yongming City? They had to look outside. The refugees sent from the north had solved Qiong Yu’s urgent need.

In this way, Yongming City benefited, the north gained stability, and a win-win situation was formed.

People in the outside world have been keeping an eye on Jingchang's movements. Seeing Jingchang's arrangements for the refugees, the other vassal states bordering the Northland all wanted to give it a try.

After the small vassal state tried, it immediately declared failure, because the small vassal state did not have such a large territory to transfer refugees from north to south, nor did it have enough money and food to provide food and drink for the refugees.

After the big countries used it, they found it very useful, especially King An. King An even thought that this method could also be used in places where there were no refugees.

The original people were transferred away and the vacant land was given to the refugees. In this way, the people who originally lived in the same place would not be able to unite to fight against the court, and the refugees would have a place to settle down and could farm for him.

Prince An had some inexplicable understanding, but as soon as his understanding emerged, it was suppressed by the court officials of An State.

An Guo not only has the territories conquered by King An later, but also the fiefdoms granted to King An in the beginning. The big families in those fiefdoms are the ones who will really unite to resist the existence of the court. If King An really uses this method of transferring people away and cutting off the roots of the local people, what will happen to their families?

King An didn't understand why the Zhou emperor could do whatever he wanted so easily, but he was faced with shackles and difficulties everywhere he wanted to do.

If Shen Zhiwei knew about his troubles, he would definitely tell him that this situation happened because too few people died in Anguo.

If all those guys who were always nagging him were dead, he would be able to do whatever he wanted.

That’s right, in Shen Zhiwei’s opinion, those guys who were nagging and preventing her from building the country should die.

It wasn't that she treated human life as worthless, but she felt that those hypocrites who spoke of morality and justice had already treated human life as worthless. If you ask whose life they treated as worthless, it was of course Shen Zhiwei's own life!

Shen Zhiwei felt that she had a very hard time. She was either working hard or on the way to working hard all day long. She had to review memorials every day and rack her brains to think about how to arrange the future of this country. She was so busy, and as a subordinate, it would be fine if he didn't share her worries, but he also made things difficult for her. Isn't this a waste of her life?

Since you have been unkind to me, don't blame me for being unfair to you!

Fortunately, this kind of hypocrites are a minority in Jingchang. Before, when she ordered Wen Tao to lead troops to kill those nobles who committed treason, it had effectively deterred those guys with impure intentions. It is certainly impossible to make that group of people live in peace for the rest of their lives, but it is possible to make them behave honestly for a while.

If anyone jumps out again, she will sentence their entire family to death.

The series of tasks of teaching and educating people are pushing the progress bar forward little by little. In addition to students from professional schools, students in those academies have also become task standards. As soon as school starts in September, Shen Zhiwei will focus on the teaching tasks.

After being triggered in July, the settlement will be around October. If there is a problem in the last month, resulting in a low ending level, Shen Zhiwei will really be furious.

Fortunately, the situation she worried about did not happen. After Wen Tao became the Taifu, he paid great attention to all matters related to education. Not only would he keep an eye on the students in the school, but he would also ask the lecturers from time to time if they had encountered any difficulties. He made sure that the students studied well and the teachers taught well.

She was originally a member of a high-energy group. Now that Gui Yang was doing Dazai's position, which was full of trivial tasks, she put all her energy into education. With her own strength, she managed to make the entire education system clear from top to bottom. Shen Zhiwei was shocked when she thought about the amount of work, but Wen Tao felt it was a breeze.

Every time at this time, Shen Zhiwei wanted to say that she was going to compete with the high-energy crowd!

Gui Yang probably had the same idea. After becoming the Prime Minister, he was busier than before. He thought that since he had experience as the Prime Minister, he would be able to handle it with ease the second time. However, the amount of government affairs in Jingchang now was completely different from when he was the Prime Minister. He was so busy that his dark circles under his eyes were as dark as a national treasure.

His retainers were also exhausted. Just getting familiar with the officials of the six ministries and clarifying their responsibilities took a lot of energy.

If it weren't for her desire to become the Prime Minister, Gui Yang would have wanted to resign and ask to be sent to be a county magistrate.

One day in September, when attending court, Shen Zhiwei finally noticed Gui Yang's big dark circles.

Shen Zhiwei looked up at the sky a little guiltily. She had been busy recently and had forgotten about forming a cabinet.

There's no way. There are so many things to do in the country. Even though she has a team of secretaries, she still forgets some things.

So in this ordinary morning court, Shen Zhiwei suddenly mentioned the cabinet. Although it was called a cabinet, it was actually there to reduce the workload of the Prime Minister, except that the cabinet members all had some of the Prime Minister's power.

This is very unusual. As the territory becomes larger and larger, the power of the Dazai also increases. Originally, there was only one Dazai, and the others could not compete for it. Now there are ten cabinet members, which suddenly gives senior officials hope.

The ten members of the cabinet were called cabinet scholars, with the Prime Minister as the chief minister, that is, the chief of the cabinet. As for the remaining nine people, Shen Zhiwei squeezed all the six ministers in, and also squeezed Wen Tao in to take up one of the positions.

That makes eight people, two spots short.

Shen Zhiwei squeezed Yanxia in as well, and gave the remaining spot to An Jin.

The reason why Yanxia and Anjin entered the cabinet was to balance the power of the cabinet. As the first secretary of the secretariat, Yanxia was the true confidant of the king and was trusted by Shen Zhiwei.

An Jin is the representative of Baigongfang. In Shen Zhiwei's opinion, she is a scientific researcher, and scientific researchers must participate in management. Even if An Jin is not good at management, she must join in.

Moreover, after the establishment of the cabinet, any royal decree must be issued through the cabinet. An Jin is the only one who can know the arrangements about the Hundred Workshops the fastest. She can become the first line of defense to prevent outsiders from commanding insiders.

Otherwise, in the future, scientific researchers will have no say in official circles. You must know that scientific research burns money all the time, and those outsiders in official circles control the purse strings. Without insiders to make judgments, it is not certain where the money will end up.

The ten tentative cabinet members were all in place. Gui Yang thought that her life would be easier after becoming the Prime Minister, but then she found out that it was not the case.

Even more, because he also needs to assist the king in issuing royal orders.

The only one who truly relaxed was Shen Zhiwei.

The six ministers in the cabinet have no business at all. They can only be asked for help when there is something important. The people who really do the work are Gui Yang, Wen Tao and Yan Xia. Their work is no different from before.

When Gui Yang discovered this, she was immediately devastated.

Unable to bear it any longer, he went to ask for an audience with the king, hoping that the king would find a few more cabinet scholars to help him.