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The first thousand three hundred and sixty-eight chapters come from the west

Zhao Zhen's decree arrived at Datong Prefecture first. Zhang Yuqian knew the intention of the official when he saw the memorial. It was obvious that this was to absorb the people of the Liao Dynasty, but in fact it was not easy.

First, the Liao people had already noticed that the officials of Xijing Road had begun to use strong means to suppress them. Second, the people of Datong Prefecture were unwilling to sacrifice their own interests to accept these people who fled from the Liao Dynasty, for fear that they would steal their jobs.

Fortunately, the official sent Han Qi and supplies to come. Otherwise, in the face of these people who kept pouring into Datong Prefecture, Zhang Yuqian really didn't know what to resettle. Although Datong Prefecture was rich, there was very little local finance. All taxes were to be paid to the court, and the court allocated funds again.

However, with Zhang Yuqian's continuous memorials and Zhao Zhen's new decree was issued again, and he also discovered the problem. It would be better to give Datong Prefecture a certain amount of money to the central government. Datong Prefecture can temporarily misappropriate commercial taxes to resettle the people, and at the end of the year the embezzlement tax will be used to offset the total tax amount.

This is the latest reform measure. Datong Prefecture is a "test field". If it is successful, local prefectures can also be followed in the future when encountering natural disasters and man-made disasters. However, Zhao Zhen will not delegate financial power to the local area, otherwise it will be embarrassing that local prefectures have money to support officials for corruption and the court has no money to use.

Han Qi arrived at Datong Prefecture as fast as possible. His main mission was to resettle the people of Guiyi of the Liao Dynasty. His position was the same as that of Zhao Zhen in this regard. These people must be settled and even lived a better life than the Liao Dynasty.

He already had a solution, not to place these people in Datong Prefecture. After all, the population here is already quite large due to business reasons. If you want to find a way out for these people, the best way is to migrate to Beijing Road where Cai Boyi is located.

Beijing Road has a vast territory and many prefectures, so it can accommodate these people for the time being. Another thing is also in Han Qi's plan. Since it is the people of the Liao Dynasty who are inevitably going back to the Liao Dynasty after panic and return to their hometown Xijing Road. Only by moving these people away quickly can they be kept.

Han Qi didn't want these hundreds of thousands of people to come and leave. Since we came to the Song Dynasty, whether you are a Khitan or a Han person, you must become a commoner of the Song Dynasty and become a part of the Song Dynasty. For this reason, Han Qi specially wrote a memorial to Zhao Zhen, asking these Khitans to be naturalized in the Song Dynasty, just like the Dangxiang people in the past, they became the Khitan tribe of the Song Dynasty.

When the memorial arrived in Shendu, Zhao Zhen made an imperial criticism as quickly as possible, and accepted the people of the Liao Dynasty's return to the Song Dynasty's household registration. Local prefectures and prefectures must not make things difficult for them, nor must they bully and insult them.

No one knew that this simple memorial became the beginning of the Song Dynasty's absorption of foreign tribes and also became an unwritten rule on the immigration policy of the Song Dynasty.

What is the most needed in this era? Territory! What is the most lacking? Population!

A country with a vast territory and a large population is the strongest overlord on the earth in this era. Especially under the policies formulated by Zhao Zhen, every inch of land in the Song Dynasty must play a powerful role. Financial taxation, talent training, grain and minerals, etc. all require human land and population to achieve it.

Zhao Zhen has always adhered to the policy of land first and the people first. Only when there is land will people develop and utilize it, only when there is people can they pay taxes to the court and cultivate talents, and only when there is Renmin University of Song Dynasty will there be soldiers.

So Han Qi and Zhang Yuqian "worked a team" to complete this arduous historical task. Zhang Yuqian used the finance and taxation of Datong Prefecture as the basis for purchasing materials, plus the 100,000 guan allocated by the three departments to a total of 500,000 guan.

The 500,000 guan not only needs to buy food, clothing, but also provide medicine, carriages, labor, etc.

The average cost of Guiyi people is to use the money of the Song Dynasty's five-cent money for one person! But in Han Qi and Zhang Yuqian, these 500,000 coins are worth it. What is the price of 500,000 coins? It is only one percent of the annual commercial tax of Datong Prefecture. However, the 100,000 people, especially the 100,000 people from Guiyi in the Liao Dynasty, cannot buy it even if you spend money!

This was a heavy blow to the Liao Dynasty, which made the Liao people's psychological fear of the Song Dynasty penetrate into their bones, and also made them see that there was another way out without fighting with the Song Dynasty. This way out was to surrender to the Song Dynasty.

Unintentionally, a drunk man's crazy talk became the beginning of a psychological war. Zhao Zhen sighed at the magic of fate. Who would have thought that it was actually a history written by a drunk man?

Zhao Zhen sent someone to check carefully. The drunk man had nothing to do with the Song Dynasty, nor with the Black Hand Imperial City. It was really just a coincidence. His words broke the psychological defense line of the Liao people. First the Han people, then the Khitan people flocked into Datong Prefecture.

In fact, the arrival of these Guiyi people did not have much impact on Datong Prefecture. Instead, the economy of Datong Prefecture prospered again. These people were all about to eat and sleep? The court paid to resettle them, so the money would eventually be in the hands of merchants and the people.

Finally, the tax officials from Datong Prefecture were transferred back to the court. In fact, this time, Datong Prefecture did not use 500,000 guan to resettle the people of Guiyi, but about 300,000 guan, but the effect was... amazingly good!

Cai Boqi actively planned to resettle these refugees on Beijing Road. In his eyes, anyone who lost his land was considered refugees. As for whether they were loyal to each other, it depends on whether they were honest in Beijing Road.

The construction of Beijing Road requires a large number of manpower, and the surrender of these 100,000 people is naturally a powerful production force. It would be a pity that Cai Boqi would never give up this opportunity, and even would pay for money to place these people in Beijing Road.

There are a lot of 100,000 people, but not many of the dozens of prefectures in Beijing Road. It is considered to be the best for a prefecture to absorb up to 5,000 people. These 5,000 people also include the elderly, weak, women and children, but it is a considerable force in the entire Beijing Road.

In order to block the mouths of the nobles in the court, Cai Boqi was crazily building Beijing Road. First, this was his first time as a pacifier in one side. It would definitely not work without certain political achievements. Second, if Zhao Zhen did not do well, he would be disappointed. This was giving him a chance and a chance to the foreign relatives. He did not give high-priced literary resources, but he could be sent well.

It is because everyone hopes that they have a sense of existence in society, such as civil officials, military generals, and of course the same with relatives. Cai Boyi is indifferent to fame and fortune, but his identity as a relative restricted him. From beginning to end, he knew that the official family should use himself to give relatives alike and give hope to relatives.
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