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Chapter 373 Founding an Arsenal

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    Chapter 373 Absorbing the population

    Li Zhen made an exception and promoted Zhang Jianzhi, treating him as a think tank and letting Zhang Jianzhi handle the government affairs of the area under his jurisdiction. This aroused the dissatisfaction of many people.

    Many people think that Zhang Jianzhi is just a student who didn¡¯t even pass the Jinshi exam, so they don¡¯t take Zhang Jianzhi seriously.

    "But after Zhang Jian took office, he resorted to thunderous tactics and dismissed more than a hundred officials within seven days, which shocked the entire Yingzhou and the peninsula.

    No one thought that this seemingly harmless young man could be so capable.

    Li Zhen fully supported Zhang Jianzhi behind the scenes, which also allowed Zhang Jianzhi to integrate Yingzhou and the peninsula in a short period of time with strong backing.

    "But Zhang and Cambodia removed more than a hundred incompetent officials at once, leaving a big gap in Yingzhou officials.

    Zhang Jianzhi's method is also very simple, that is, to issue a talent search order in the name of Li Zhen, and those who come to recruit officials will be regardless of seniority or origin. As long as they have talent and pass the assessment of Li Zhen and Zhang Jianzhi  Appointed together later.

    Although the population of Yingzhou and the peninsula is not large, during this period, as Li Zhen continued to hold high the banner of the Tang Dynasty in Yingzhou as the prince, many people from various places who were fleeing the war moved to Yingzhou.

    In a short period of time, the population of Yingzhou has increased by hundreds of thousands. Many of them are literati with integrity, and there are many capable people among them.

    Li Zhentong set a time to conduct assessment interviews for these literati seeking officials. The interviews were hosted by Li Zhen and Zhang Jianzhi. First, Zhang Jianzhi asked the applicants about the official positions they wanted, and then assessed their knowledge, such as some historical allusions.  , and then Li Zhen asked some questions about how to govern the place and how to do his job well.

    The questions are all random, and Li Zhen asks some relevant questions based on the wishes of these job seekers.

    In Li Zhen¡¯s view, there are actually many talented people in the world, and the main thing is to have someone who can discover these talented people, and to be honest, he and Zhang Jianzhi are this talent.

    Zhang Jianzhi is also very accurate in judging people, and he can appoint officials based on the abilities of the candidates.

    And under Li Zhen¡¯s suggestion, Zhang Jianzhi established a more advanced official promotion system in Yingzhou in a short period of time.

    The lowest ranking officials are eliminated, those with lower political achievements will be demoted, and those with higher political achievements will be promoted. In this way, these officials will not dare to live in the world, and they will be like monks and ring the bell every day.

    In order to make these officials honest and avoid corruption, Li Zhen decided to provide high salaries to keep them honest, and use high salaries to enable these officials to have a good life, so as to better mobilize their enthusiasm for work.

    Of course, an efficient supervision mechanism must also be established at the same time, so as to make the government more honest.

    Li Zhen is not in a hurry to expand now. He will take the lead with a gun. The melee in this world will not end for a while. The war is about economy and strength. Therefore, only by doing a good job in internal affairs and accumulating sufficient resources and strength  , only then can we eliminate the warlords from various places and clear out the alien races.

    ????????????????????????? Otherwise, if you don¡¯t have the strength, you will resort to violence, and you will only end up destroying yourself in the end.

    For example, during the Northern and Southern Dynasties, Yuwentai of the Western Wei Dynasty had outstanding military capabilities, but he sent troops to attack Gao Huan of the Eastern Wei Dynasty but suffered a disastrous defeat.  This made him realize that military capabilities alone were not enough. He had to do a good job in internal affairs and strengthen his strength. As a result, decades later, the Northern Zhou Dynasty established by the descendants of Yuwentai, after growing in strength, wiped out the establishment of the descendants of Gao Huan without any effort.  of Northern Qi.

    Another example is that during the Three Kingdoms period, Zhuge Liang made six expeditions to Qishan, and Jiang Wei made nine expeditions to the Central Plains. They all failed. The most fundamental reason was due to lack of strength.

    Therefore, only by possessing absolute strength can it be easier to win on the battlefield.

    Li Zhen decided to develop internal affairs first and improve her own strength. Only with the capital can she unify the country.

    To develop strength, you first need population. At this time, population is a strategic resource. With people, it is possible to develop production and increase soldiers. Without people, there is nothing.

    Therefore, while Li Zhen issued the order to seek talents, he also began to formulate policies to attract refugees from exile.

    "Ding! The host triggers the side mission - Internal Affairs Expert. The host must attract more than 500,000 refugees to Yingzhou within a year to enhance the strength of Yingzhou. After completing the task, there will be generous rewards."

    The system tone rang in her mind. When Li Zhen heard it, she realized that the system worked well with her. Li Zhen happily accepted the task and was ready to fight.

    Youzhou and Jizhou, which are closest to Yingzhou, have a larger population than Yingzhou, and Jizhou, Hebei Province, which is farther away, has a larger population than Yingzhou., is a densely populated place.

    Li Zhen set her sights on these states.

    In order to attract refugees, Li Zhen offered generous conditions. Anyone who came to Yingzhou would be given land and seeds by the government based on their population, and they would not pay any taxes for three years.

    Yingzhou and the peninsula have a large area, and there is a lot of arable land. Li Zhen decided to promote high-yielding crops such as sweet potatoes and corn in Yingzhou again. Li Zhen believed that with the promotion of these high-yielding crops, the food produced in Yingzhou would  It can fully meet the needs of life.

    I have to say that Li Zhen was lucky and caught up with a good opportunity.

    At this time, the people of Youzhou and Jizhou were in dire straits under the rule of foreigners. Those foreigners usually only knew how to plunder the people of the Tang Dynasty, but they did not know how to govern the place.

    They also continued to use the old method of dividing large areas of farmland in Youzhou and Jizhou into pastures and giving them to the Xi and Khitan people for grazing.

    But these foreigners ignored the people who had lost their land and even captured many people as slaves.

    The foreigners treated the people of Youzhou and Jizhou as if they were livestock. They only knew how to plunder and did not care about the lives of the people.

    As a result, a large number of people in Youzhou and Jizhou fled their homes.

    There are two places for them to go, one is to go south to Hebei Road, and the other is to go east to enter Yingzhou. The vast majority of them choose to enter Yingzhou.

    This is because the current Hebei Province people are in dire straits under Li Fu¡¯s rule.

    Li Fu did not know how to govern the country, so he resorted to militarism and continued to expand his army. In a short period of time, he actually expanded his army to 400,000.

    And so many troops only rely on Hedong Road and Hebei Road for supply, which is obviously somewhat inadequate.

    But Li Fu didn't care about this, he just increased taxes, which made the people miss the original Tang Dynasty and Li Zhen even more.

    In addition, after hearing about the good policies in Yingzhou, many people from Pingzhou near Yingzhou also fled to Yingzhou with their families.

    As time went by, even the people in Weizhou, Cangzhou and Jizhou in the interior of Hebei Province began to flee Hebei Province and go to Yingzhou to seek life.

    As a result, Yingzhou absorbed a large number of refugees in a short period of time. In only four or five months, Yingzhou's population increased by 500,000 to 600,000 (Remember the website address: www.  hlnovel.com
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