Today, the Han Dynasty is a muddy water and extremely chaotic. The eight kings of different surnames of the Han Dynasty each occupy one side and control the general trend of the world. Now the prestige of the Han Dynasty has been reduced to the extreme.

Between the Eight Kings, there are some small forces in the cracks to survive. Although there was no war in the world at this time, anyone with a discerning eye could see how long this peaceful life had passed.

For example, the three forces with the most powerful troops today are Qin Li Chen, Wei Cao Cao and Jin Yuan Shao. Among them, Cao Cao and Yuan Shao are both armored soldiers on both sides, and Cao Cao and Yuan Shao are above 500,000, while Qin Li Chen has only 200,000 troops.

However, Qin King Li Chen took the elite soldiers route, and his troops were all elite soldiers, and his combat power was far above Cao's and Yuan's army.

Xuzhou, Yunlong Palace.

"Ka, da, da."

A series of footsteps sounded, and Li Chen appeared in Yunlong Hall wearing a black python robe. As soon as Li Chen appeared, a group of civil and military ministers began to salute respectfully.

"See King Qin."

"See King Qin."

As soon as Li Chen arrived, there was a whistle and bustle of salutes in the hall.

"Get up."

Li Chen gave a slight greeting, signaling the civil and military officials to get up.

Now Li Chen has become king. In such a formal occasion, he cannot call Li Chen the lord or the palace commander, but now he has to call King Qin.

"Bowen, how are the refugees recruited?" After everyone stood up, Li Chen asked Liu Bowen on the side.

"Report to the King of Qin, he has received 300,000 people now. After the news from us spread, the speed of absorbing the population will inevitably be much faster." Liu Bowen replied respectfully.

In ancient times, population was the top priority. Even in poor families, they knew that they had to have more children, and they would have a few helpers when fighting with their neighbors. Ordinary people even knew the importance of population, so how could Li Chen not know?

Since the Luoyang incident, Li Chen returned to Xuzhou and began to take the opportunity to attract refugees. In this era, there was not much, but there were many refugees.

When encountering war, the people will run to places without war. When encountering famine, the people will also run to places without disasters. This is called famine. It seems that for the people, as long as they run fast enough, they will not be able to catch up with them.

Since ancient times, the Han people have been in the plot of falling leaves returning to their roots. If it weren’t for the time when they couldn’t survive, who would have been willing to leave their hometown? The purpose of escaping famine is only to be able to survive in this world.

Normally, refugees are not welcomed everywhere. First of all, it is because people are so hungry that they can do anything, and the influx of refugees in the area will inevitably affect local public security.

Secondly, even the landlords have no surplus food. After accepting refugees, they need to solve the livelihoods of these people. This is not a simple matter.

Therefore, when some places even encounter refugees, they choose to close the city gates and refuse to enter the city. When the refugees see that the gates are closed, they naturally cannot afford to waste time, so they will rush towards the next city.

Of course, localities do not completely accept refugees. When recruiting soldiers or shortage of population, some places will accept refugees, but this is just a very rare situation in the overall situation.

Now, Xuzhou is accepting refugees in large quantities, and it is a method of acceptance that everyone is willing to accept. As long as you are willing to come, Xuzhou will accept it.

In order to attract more people, Li Chen also set up a slogan to accept refugees.

He just said: "I've been from Xuzhou when I come."

The population of 300,000 is actually not a large number. Nowadays, the Han Dynasty can be said to be vast and sparsely populated. After scattered to various counties and counties in Xuzhou, the population of 300,000 was just a waste.

The first batch of potatoes and sweet potatoes is about to be harvested. Once you have harvested sweet potatoes and potatoes, there are big killers like sweet potatoes and potatoes. Not to mention that Xuzhou has an additional population of 300,000, even if it has an additional population of 3 million, Li Chen can raise it.

Li Chen nodded and said, "The population of 300,000 is not large, and the speed of absorbing the population must be accelerated."

In large quantities of refugees from Yuan Shao and Cao Cao's territory, there may be nothing to see in a short period of time, but for a long time it is simply to secretly suck the blood of Cao Cao and Yuan Shao. As one goes up and down, the population of this person's territory is getting smaller and smaller, while the number of people on Li Chen's territory is increasing. In the long run, it will definitely affect the source of troops. You must know that in this era, refugees are the big part of the source of troops for Cao Cao and Yuan Shao.

"The King of Qin, we can support even a million people. Moreover, once our policy of absorbing refugees spreads, more and more refugees will come to join us. However, when things go wrong, there are only so many people, and we always have to find something for them." Liu Bowen pondered.

Now, the farming has been gathered. Even if the refugees are distributed to the crops and fields, they have to wait until the next year if they want to farm. Now these refugees are all supported by the relief grains distributed by the government, but if there are too many people, it is inevitable that they will cause trouble.

To put it bluntly, I am afraid that they will have nothing to do if they eat and get rid of it, and they will mess with things.

Li Chen thought for a while and said to Liu Bowen: "It is easy to deal with this, so that they can work for the government with work. In this way, they will definitely not cause trouble when working every day."

"King of Qin, what are you asking them to do?" After Li Chen said that, Liu Bowen asked his soul question.

Liu Bowen also asked Li Chen when he asked this question. Yes, what did they do? This method of using labor for relief is good, but what did they do is indeed a problem.

You know, Li Chen has a small territory now, just one Xuzhou and one Luoyang. Moreover, Xuzhou and Luoyang are among the rich areas of the Han Dynasty, and their infrastructure is very complete. Suddenly, he really can't find a place that can use hundreds of thousands of people.

Li Chen pondered for a moment and said, "In this way, let them log the wood."

In this era, there are large forests outside the city. Even if you cut wood to death, you will never be able to cut it all in your life.

Li Chen waved his hand and said that he wanted hundreds of thousands of people to log wood. The supply of labor-for-relief was found, but what are we using it for so much wood?

Chen Deng is the big housekeeper of Xuzhou. Xuzhou's money, grain, salt, iron, etc. have to pass through him, and he is also in charge of all kinds of warehouses. When Li Chen said he wanted hundreds of thousands of people to log wood, he was stunned by Chen Deng.

Hundreds of thousands of people are logging together, how much wood has to be cut down? The key question is again. What should I do if I need so much wood? Even if I don’t do anything, I will take up space wherever I put it?

"King of Qin, why do we need so much wood?" Chen Deng asked in confusion.

"I have my own use, you will understand later." Li Chen said with a smile.

What did Li Chen want to do? Of course he wanted to build a ship. He had the shipbuilding map of the Ming Dynasty navy, the most powerful in China for 5,000 years. Just like a three-rail gunship and a rushing ship, they were all large ships with thousands of materials. If these ships were built, the wood that needed to be consumed would be simply impossible to calculate.
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