After receiving the news that Liu Yan and Zhou Yu had been assassinated, Jia Xu personally led the team to Xinzhou. After all, for Jia Xu, nothing in this world is more important than his personal safety.

Compared with Zhou Yu, who was mostly seeking his own death, and Liu Yan, who had such strong security and could be assassinated, Jia Xu felt that he really had to explore the situation carefully.

As a result, when Jia Xu arrived in Xinzhou and just started to conduct investigations, Sima Lang was assassinated. This incident was still not done by the Yang family and the Yuan family, which was very outrageous.

"So, what are your Yang family and Yuan family doing?" Jia Xu looked at Yang Hao and Yuan Jing who came here to explain, and asked expressionlessly. However, this indifference made it difficult for them to explain. The two of them were very helpless.

"Since the last round of assassination of Doctor Liu, our family has stopped planning for fear of getting into trouble again." Yang Hao tried his best to suppress the fear in his heart and explained as much as possible what the two families were doing recently, " Since then, the assassins arranged by our two families have been at the Xinzhou Government Office and have not been dispatched. This matter has nothing to do with us. "

"I know it has nothing to do with you." Jia Xu didn't really want to hear this unnecessary explanation. He didn't care whether this matter had anything to do with the Yang family and the Yuan family, because it was Sima Lang who was assassinated, let alone He's not dead. Even if he is dead, there will still be backup candidates to take over, so it doesn't matter.

What really made Jia Xu calm down and think about it was the current situation in Xinzhou. Jia Xu had never been to Xinzhou before. The information about Xinzhou mainly came from the intelligence system of Guo Jia and others. There was only one built by the intelligence system. Overall cognition, in this cognition, Jia Xu believed that there were certain problems in Xinzhou, but when he actually came to Xinzhou...

Jia Xu just felt that it was chaotic. The situation here was very chaotic, and because of the problem of population migration, the social conflicts at the bottom here were also relatively large. Thanks to the fact that Xinzhou was still in the era of fertile water and grass these days, the three western regions The years of management of the Sixteen Kingdoms have long since turned this place into mature soil, and it can rely on large-scale land rewards to maintain the most basic operation of the place.

However, people from different places, with different customs and cultures, and the remnants of the Thirty-Six Kingdoms settled in Xinzhou, and the underlying conflicts that resulted were actually quite serious.

Although in terms of pure governance, turning social conflicts into contradictions at the bottom and inciting internal strife at the bottom is conducive to national rule. Even if there will be a certain amount of internal friction, it will reduce the cost of governance to a certain extent. After all, if people at the bottom If we sit together and unite to think about why we are like this, then the upper management will have to consider whether it is time for us to cut off our flesh.

But from Jia Xu's point of view, Jia Xu, who has experienced the Qiang Rebellion, knows very well that with the current chaos in Xinzhou, if a spark is thrown in, it will most likely explode, repeating the situation in Liangzhou that year.

As for whether they are Han people or locals, it actually doesn't make sense. The main force of the Qiang rebellion in the past will no longer be Qiang people. After all, many nominal ethnic conflicts will be found when you really look at them from a high latitude. It is essentially a class conflict caused by interests.

Jia Xu did not have the consciousness of the class conflict behind it, but Jia Xu knew very well how the Liangzhou where he lived had exploded, so after he really came here, he no longer paid attention to Sima Lang, but focused on how to dismantle it. Drop this bomb.

After sending Yang Hao and Yuan Jing away, Jia Xu sat aside and began to think quietly. Soon Liu Yan came in from the door. By this time, his injuries had already healed, but Jia Xu asked Liu Yan to cover up the incident first. Let's see if anyone else has any ideas about assassination.

"Wenhe, did you do that thing about Sima Boda?" Liu Yan looked at Jia Xu and asked strangely. When Jia Xu did this, he did not cover up Liu Yan, so compared to In the chaos that others were caught in, Liu Yan saw the matter clearly at a glance, but he was even more puzzled when he saw it clearly.

"It's just a matter of going with the flow and venting the anger of the Qiang people towards Sima Lang." Jia Xu said calmly, "To a certain extent, I saved Sima Lang's life."

"I'm just wondering why you used such a drastic method." Liu Yan looked at Jia Xu in confusion and asked, "There are obviously other methods, and this method is completely inconsistent with your normal handling habits. I feel weird."

"Even you, someone who knows me so well, finds it strange, and other people won't think this way." Jia Xu said calmly, "Sima Lang did a terrible job this time, Yuan and Yang both From a practical point of view, it is reasonable to change the family, but that was before I came here, but after I came here, I realized that Sima Lang still has enough value. "

Liu Yan nodded when he heard the words. He was not blind. The problem in Xinzhou was huge, and it was different from Anxi, Zhongnan, and Ganges. In those places, the Han Dynasty won the war seriously and gained the legal authority by force. , there is no need to be kind and gentle to the locals.

Although the Han Dynasty also has a soft side when dealing with these people, and is not blindly tough, the Han Dynasty can indeed do some things that do not treat people as human beings when necessary. After all, those places are inherently It is not the core area owned by the Han Dynasty. Even if the Han family that goes there has a sense of responsibility, the highest priority must be their own interests.

Therefore, in those places, even if the Han family behaved extremely kindly, they would kill people if necessary, and on a large scale.

But Xinzhou is different. Xinzhou is the northwest passage for the Han Dynasty. It is a newly established state and county of the Han Dynasty. Its population has been included in the ranks of the country's common people from the beginning, so many actions are impossible to carry out. After all, Chen Xi, who is at the top, is moral and cannot kill local people indiscriminately.

As a result, Xinzhou has been on a powder keg, or to put it more bluntly, Xinzhou has not been cleaned up from the beginning.

These originally existing problems were only suppressed by the migrating population and Sima Lang's management. However, with the passage of time and the low development efficiency of the Northwest Passage, these suppressed problems gradually surfaced. .

"From this point of view alone, Sima Lang's operation of replacing the population of New South Wales was actually correct, because only by replacing all the people in New South Wales, or replacing more than 80%, can the local population be completely eliminated. The population conflict caused by people from other places." Jia Xu said very calmly.

The people who migrated from the thirteen counties of the Han Dynasty stopped in Xinzhou and no longer went to Central Asia. They also had to divide their fields and houses. How did the fields and houses come from? Isn't it still from those who were Did the non-citizens from the thirty-six countries who migrated take it away?

At that time, Sima Lang traded non-citizens from the Thirty-six Kingdoms and Han Dynasty commoners for two for one, or even three for one for the aristocratic families passing through. This was a strategy that killed two birds with one stone, but Sima Lang wanted to use this trick to eliminate permanent troubles. This resulted in a significant decrease in the population of Xinzhou, and was finally warned by Chen Xi and Li You respectively.

"Just because you have the right idea doesn't mean you can do it." Liu Yan shook his head and said, "I also realized this problem after I came here, but I still want to say that Sima Lang's behavior was too radical. He had some problems in the early days. The most important thing about other choices and what happened later is that his thoughts were focused on his own interests from the beginning. "

Liu Yan is not a vegetarian. As the head of the Ministry of Manpower for so many years, he has seen and seen many things. There is no problem with Sima Lang's ability, Sima Lang's judgment, and Sima Lang's analysis of the contradictions at the bottom of Xinzhou. But in the end The solution proposed was obviously based on family interests, not the interests of the country.

"It was agreed back then that Sima Boda gave up his position in Chang'an and came to Xinzhou. We said at the time that this action was actually to pave the way for the Sima family. We also chose to accept it at the time, but we just said, From now on, Sima Boda has no chance to enter Chang'an." Jia Xu looked at Liu Yan calmly and said, "I think it's acceptable that he didn't do anything bad."

Liu Yan didn't argue when he heard this, which was a fact. After all, it was agreed that Sima Lang would go to Xinzhou to pave the way for his family, so they would accept his behavior within a certain level, but Sima Lang's behavior I played it a few times and it was really too big.

“Back then, the hidden dangers were not eradicated from the root. Now, the conflicts between the former locals and the immigrants in Xinzhou are getting bigger and bigger due to issues such as land and water competition. In addition, Sima Boda has carried out various measures to reduce conflicts. The split-style merging of villages did reduce conflicts in the early days, but now it has increased the conflicts between villages," Jia Xu said with an indifferent expression.

In the early days, Sima Lang's plan was basically equivalent to vacating the cage and changing the bird. There is a saying that this itself is a very outrageous plan, but considering that the Thirty-six Kingdoms of the Western Regions themselves were only influenced by the Han Dynasty, they were not ruled by the Han Dynasty. In this area, the people have not fully accepted the Chinese culture. Sima Lang and the Central Asian families colluded to carry out mandatory two-for-one exchanges, or even three-for-one exchanges, and the people of the thirty-six countries were transferred to Central Asia.

When they arrived in Central Asia, a lawless land, the Han family had many ways to subdue these people. Even if there was no way to subdue these people, the people of the thirty-six countries in the Western Regions had hatred in their hearts and got involved with the thieves in Anxi's homeland. The Han family also had The solution.

After all, in the moral land of the country, some methods cannot be used, but it does not mean that in a lawless land like Central Asia, it cannot be dealt with. Even if it fails, isn't there still a method of humane destruction?

Speaking of which, there is a reason why these places in Central Asia are called lawless places. From what Chen Xi said back then, the laws do not apply to restrain the major families. Unless one party files a lawsuit against the other party, the senior officials of the Han Dynasty will send Tingwei to lead the team. Provide legal aid to both parties article by article and answer each case one by one.

After this clear regulation appeared, the Central Asian families would not go out of their way to seek legal aid as long as they had no problems. After all, each family knew what their own situation was. A legal aid team led by Ting Wei might not be able to provide legal aid in the future. When the opponent was cleaning up, he also cleaned up his own family. After all, which family would be the little white flower? To put it too much, the three-drink fines done by the major aristocratic families were put on the heads of ordinary people, and the whole family might be killed. All right.

Therefore, the Central Asian aristocratic families never sued the officials, but handled matters on their own. Over time, the Han Dynasty became lawless in the local area, where the law prevailed, and outside the mainland, fists prevailed.

Therefore, many problems that take generations to solve in terms of morality and education at home can be solved in just a few seconds after leaving the country. As for the accumulation of hatred, for the collective, it is never hatred that continues the war. But profit.

Hatred is more about individuals. Hatred under the collective will is more of an inducement. Interest is the real core.

So when the exchange was 2:1 and 3:1, Sima Lang was very happy, he got the upper hand and accumulated a good hand for his family. The Central Asian families were also very happy. No matter how poor the population of the Thirty-Six Kingdoms was, it was a good population that had been truly influenced by the radiation of Han culture, and it was much easier to absorb than the people of Parthia. As for what problems such trading and migrating population would cause, who cares?

If it doesn't work, you can put the blame on others. For example, the kings of the Thirty-Six Kingdoms in the Western Regions took all the assets of the country to Chang'an to enjoy themselves. Some kings even scraped the land before leaving. You are now being forcibly relocated because your king sold you to us. Blah blah blah, blame your king if you want to blame him. We paid for it.

As for the houses you built and the land you reclaimed, there is nothing you can do. When your king left, he sold you to us. Now we have brought you to Central Asia. Let's do this. We will redistribute houses and land to you in Central Asia.

As a result, although the people of the thirty-six countries who were sent to Central Asia were very angry, they had no better solution. On the one hand, their military power really could not catch up with the Han family. On the other hand, the Han family was still willing to say nice things and deceive them at this point. They just had to muddle along.

However, Sima Lang's operation of replacing people with people, completely emptying Xinzhou, leaving land but not people, was stopped by Chen Xi and Li You before it was completed. After all, if the replacement continued like this, such a large Xinzhou might not even have a population of one million.

As Xinzhou, which was to carry the important task of the Northwest Great Channel in the later period, if it did not even have a population of one million, it would not be able to provide food and supplies along the way, and even road maintenance might become a burden. Therefore, after Chen Xi and Li You noticed Sima Lang's crazy replacement, they quickly stopped him.

This kind of suppression has planted serious hidden dangers in Xinzhou. After Sima Lang's replacement of men with men, the local people of Xinzhou have inherently resisted Sima Lang, even though Sima Lang changed his style later and built a lot of model villages and model counties based on the characteristics of Xinzhou's vast land and sparse population, washing away his bad reputation.

But those who have experienced it personally still don't believe it.

This is the root of a series of subsequent problems. The contradictions between the locals and foreign populations of the Thirty-Six Kingdoms also originated from here, and Sima Lang has been unable to solve this. This is not something that can be suppressed by spiritual talents like spring breeze. This is a real benefit.

"The most important point that Sima Lang dared to coerce Yuan Yang this time is that he also realized that it is difficult for a second person to take his position now. The underlying contradictions generated in the general environment of Xinzhou make him irreplaceable at present." Jia Xu made the final summary.

Liu Yan sighed upon hearing this. Sima Lang was no fool, even if he was limited by what he had learned as a teenager, he would not fail to realize that his behavior was like sitting on the crater of a volcano under the advice of a group of people. It was not a simple matter of God wanting to destroy him, but with the development of Xinzhou, Sima Lang gradually realized his irreplaceability.

"If he were here, the situation in Xinzhou could be suppressed, because he was the governor who had been in charge since the establishment of Xinzhou. He knew how those contradictions were born and which thread was the key to stringing together these people and personnel. After he was removed, the newcomers would only make this place explode." Jia Xu pointed to the location of several county governments on the map and said.

"Local contradictions are too serious, and the speed of development is too slow. The people at the bottom have fallen into a state of mutual involution. Although they can still make enough to eat, the bottleneck of upward development is obvious, which leads to the game at the interest level, which can easily extend to the life level." Liu Yan sighed and said.

But Liu Yan could understand this. There was no other way. The people of the thirty-six countries lived well, and then they were forcibly relocated. The part that was relocated to the Central Plains had Chen Xi's state-owned workshops, large factories, agriculture and animal husbandry, etc. Even if there were complaints in the early days, after one or two years, the uninterrupted benefits had long made these people forget their resentment.

After all, the money that really falls into your pocket is your own money, and things like whether you live well or not cannot be deceived by verbal propaganda. The individual's self-feeling is actually very clear. It is not that you say it will increase. What you eat, drink, spend, and whether you are tight on money are actually known in your heart.

Therefore, the people of the thirty-six countries who were relocated to the interior of the Central Plains are just like the local people who were forcibly demolished when Chen Xi gathered villages and villages. After scolding the government for two years, they will accept that the government is indeed doing a good job, but there are holes in their brains when executing it, so they will not be really angry.

Of course, it is inevitable that there will be some people who can't think straight, just like the hundreds of thousands of people who crawled out of the mountains in the super cold wave a few years ago. No matter how much their relatives persuaded them, or even put the facts in front of them, they still refused to admit right or wrong. Finally, after being hit by hunger and cold, they realized that the Han Empire was still reliable.

On the contrary, those local people who stayed in the Thirty-Six Kingdoms and did not relocate, and waited until Sima Lang became the governor and joined the Han family to relocate, were unlucky. Moreover, this wave of forced relocation, under the premise that the development speed could not keep up and the butcher knife could not be used, led to very serious consequences. Almost all the forces in Xinzhou that opposed Sima Lang had their roots here.

"If someone else comes, unless they have Chen Zichuan's ability, even if it's me, I can't do anything in the first year. I can see this contradiction, but it takes too much time and energy for me to solve it." Jia Xu looked at Liu Yan and sighed, "Until now, although these internal contradictions have caused great hidden dangers, they have also become Sima Lang's official protection to some extent. This guy is very good at turning waste into treasure."

"If the Yuan family and the Yang family explode with Sima Lang, Xinzhou may also be in turmoil. Sima Lang's death will make Xinzhou, which was originally undercurrent, completely explode." Jia Xu said very seriously, "But if Sima Lang is not given this blow, some things will not be able to pass."

Sima Lang died, and some local contradictions lacked suppression at the top level. The area that was originally stabilized by Sima Lang's occasional benefits and a little affection may directly erupt into a county-level or even county-level riot in the next water dispute.

If they didn't give him this blow, some guys who were fed up with Sima Lang might lose control and cause chaos in the government office. So for safety reasons, Jia Xu sent Sima Lang to lie down. He would not die. The news was clear and clear. Because of the top doctors from Chang'an, Sima Lang would not die, but he was definitely seriously injured. The top doctors from Chang'an did not revive Sima Lang on the spot.

"I don't know how to investigate Sima Lang's problem now. The idea of ​​leaving the land but not the people can indeed solve the problem, but this idea is too tyrannical. Normal people can't think of such an operation. From this point of view..." Jia Xu sighed and looked at Liu Yan quietly.

Liu Yan did not answer, but the answer was already in his mind. There was nothing to say. Those who could implement the policy of leaving land but not people were not determined, but did not treat the locals as human beings. Sima Lang, who seemed gentle and kind, could implement such a plan, which meant something was self-evident.

"Such a plan should be either completely handled or the locals should be completely frightened. The half-finished plan is the worst." Jia Xu sighed and said, not to mention the moral character that Chen Xi liked to talk about. From the perspective of work, Jia Xu did not think that Sima Lang's handling was problematic, because the situation in Xinzhou at that time was the most correct.

Completely eliminate the remnants of the Thirty-Six Kingdoms, and then after counting the population that migrated, carry out immigration to the border in the name of the country to completely solve the problem.

Of course, the biggest problem with this operation may be that it cannot pass Chen Xi's review.

Now that I think about it, Sima Lang probably had the idea of ​​doing it first and reporting it later from the beginning, but he didn't expect to be interrupted by Chen Xi and Li You in the middle. He couldn't clean up the mess and could only lie down.

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