sbdcsierra Chapter 941: If You Want To Get Rich, Build Roads First
Chapter 941: If You Want To Get Rich, Build Roads First
A large amount of loot was looted, but silver was second, and the key was food.
To put it bluntly, many of these bandits are farmers who can't survive. After being robbed by bandits, they also joined the bandits based on the principle of joining if they can't beat them.
In fact, the life of bandits is not easy. In order not to be wiped out by the soldiers stationed in the local area, they have to pay a lot of offerings to the local officials to ensure the survival of the cottage.
What is most important to these peasant-turned-bandits?
Of course food is the most important thing!
Under this kind of thinking, most of the good things that were grabbed were exchanged for food.
And it's useless if there is too much money, it will be taken away by the officials behind them.
So in this way, there are more and more bandits in Weizhou, the farmers are getting poorer, and the officials are getting richer.
Weizhou is a frontier state, and it was a battlefield that was destroyed by the flames of war before. Being sent here to serve as an official, in fact, it is not much different from exile, and there is basically no hope of promotion.
Waiting for retirement in peace and stability is the official career of these Weizhou officials for a lifetime.
Since there is no hope of promotion in this place if you do good or bad, why not make a fortune in this last time?
So the industrial chain of collusion between officials and bandits was formed.
Xu Qing did not really exterminate these bandits. After executing a few bandit leaders, the remaining gangsters were sentenced according to the severity of their crimes.
In fact, most bandits and bandits have not done many bad things, that is to redistribute the land so that they can return to their pastoral life. There is no way that Weizhou's population is not large. If you want to restore productivity, there is not enough population.
Those who committed crimes were imprisoned in the nearest prison, waiting to be released.
Collusion between officials and bandits is common. As long as these bandits and bandits give some benefits, it is not difficult to get out of prison, but this time is different. They were captured by two emperors and two princes.
What does this belong to?
This is a crime committed by the imperial court!
No matter how much money you collect, you dare not let it go!
Su Qian can now be said to be showing her prowess. She has practiced martial arts for more than ten years, and at this moment she finally showed her heroine side to the fullest.
No, this is not a heroine, this is a female general!
The news that the two emperors and two princes joined forces to suppress the bandits naturally spread throughout Weizhou.
At this moment, Weizhou officials, big and small, can be said to be in danger.
You know, they have a lot of contacts with these bandits and bandits, and there is a lot of evidence in the hands of the bandits. These bandits were exterminated and probably seized with evidence of their collusion. Now they are in danger of being liquidated all the time!
It would be fine if one or two new officials came. These old officials who have been in the local area for many years have enough confidence to drag them down or let them die of illness in office.
But this time there is not only a new governor, but also two emperors and two princes, and the governor is also the father-in-law of one of the princes.
It can be said that if one of these people dies, their Weizhou will bleed like a river.
So these officials of all sizes in Weizhou are now only trembling, not daring to look up at all.
After wandering around for a month, Xu Qing and his party finally stepped into the gate of Weizhou City.
The prince's palace and the emperor's palace haven't been built yet, they can only live in one big house as a family, and temporarily lower the standard to make do.
It will take at least a few months for the palace and the palace to be completed. Xu Qing's Hanwang Palace is still a little faster, and it will take more than a month.
The point is that at the beginning, no one expected to change from one prince to two princes and two emperors, and to build three more mansions.
We had to spread out the limited manpower and build four at the same time.
Fortunately, the imperial court did not allocate less funds. As long as the money is enough, these people will definitely work hard.
In the past, the local officials could be greedy for ink, but now it seems that the owners of the four mansions have come to supervise the work in person, and it is absolutely impossible to be greedy for ink.
They just did their best.
In fact, what most people don't know is that there are actually three princes who came.
However, Chu State does not need to worry about what kind of house the Prince of Zhao lives in. Xu Qing will allocate the funds for the residence of the Prince of Zhao.
There is no way, the promise of a big house will eventually be fulfilled.
Although the mansion was extraordinarily given to the ten-jin mansion and places such as the martial arts arena in the back garden were added, but the level of luxury was still far from that of the real palace.
But it is more than enough to live in a father and son.
After a group of people settle down temporarily, they can start to govern Weizhou.
It can be said that the reason why Weizhou is getting poorer and poorer is not all caused by the war, and the war is just one of the less important reasons.
Weizhou is located in the frontier, and the control of the imperial court is relatively relaxed. Although the officials have no hope of promotion, they have given them great autonomy.
The governor is basically like the emperor, as long as he doesn't offend the frontier soldiers, there is nothing to worry about.
Therefore, a series of operations in Weizhou began. They can manipulate all kinds of funds allocated by the imperial court and corrupt a large part of them.
Even the money for the repair of the official road has been greedy, so the road here is getting more and more bumpy.
However, the war more than ten years ago gave Weizhou officials an excuse, saying that it was severely damaged by the war and that the money was not enough to rebuild Weizhou and so on.
So the question before Xu Qing became clear at once.
The plan to build the first phase of Weizhou can be divided into two parts.
First, rectify the administration of officials.
Each of these officials who have sucked blood in Weizhou for many years is like a fattened pig. If they have nothing to do on weekdays, they can naturally continue to eat and drink, but now the butcher with the knife has arrived.
Xu Qing can completely use the name of rectifying the administration of officials to start the primitive accumulation of capital again, but this time he has changed from a bandit to a corrupt official.
Second, if you want to get rich, build roads first.
It can be said that businessmen seek profit, and the excuse that it is unlucky to go here after a war is just a trick to fool people.
Even if the state of Chu went to war with the grassland, some merchants risked their lives to sell their goods to the grassland.
Why did you do this?
Because there is a lot of money!
A large part of the reason why there are no caravans passing by in Weizhou today is that the road here is too difficult to walk!
Their convoy was scattered by several carriages, and the road conditions here can be imagined.
If one wanted to build a commercial city, flat and wide roads were essential.