In the afternoon, in Lingui, Yuwen Weigan was writing quickly. After entering Lingnan, he set out from Lingui, walked around Rongguan and Yongguan, and returned here again. Then he was going to return to Chang'an and report to his father, so he had to write a "performance report".

The western road of Lingnan, a smoky land and amidst mountains and ridges, all the barbarians have reproduced and lived. Although there were states and counties since the Han Dynasty, the local officials were hereditary local chiefs, and it was even more difficult for the imperial court to effectively manage them.

If a militant official is to be under the jurisdiction of the militant official without the support of the military, the militant official will be undermined and the government will not leave the government's jurisdiction.

However, if there are fewer troops, there will be no use, and if there are many, there will be no support. Moreover, the soldiers are afraid of smoke and chaotic things and have many doubts. If they are guarded for a long time, they may be unstable.

Moreover, if you want to station troops, you have to farm. Whether it is military or civilians, for the military and civilians, the West Road of Lingnan is not as good as your hometown. Instead of coming here to die, it is better to survive in your hometown.

Therefore, only by vigorously developing sugarcane planting, encouraging large households to run plantations, and promoting salt, iron and raw trade can we attract profit-seeking people to come, gather popularity through business, and slowly open up the situation on this basis.

This is the current situation that Yuwen Weigan saw in the three-private land. This idea of ​​developing Lingnan is just like the development of Huangzhou back then.

At that time, Huangzhou was called Bazhou, with few land and sparsely populated areas. Although it was located on the edge of the river, it has been a small town since ancient times. It has no specialties, nor is it a convergence of water and land. Its greatest existence is that it is the barrier of Jiangbei to Wuchang City opposite the river.

Yuwen Weigan knew that his father was in Bazhou (Huangzhou), and he gained popularity through Daxing Business and became more popular, and business developed further.

He also cooperated with the chiefs of the Dabie Mountains to capture the Shengkou and increase labor, and then build a large number of construction to promote demand. This cycle has brought about a complete transformation after years of development.

The method of developing Huangzhou can be used to develop Lingnan West Road, and Lingnan can grow sugarcane. This is a hot-selling cargo and steamships can transport Guangzhou's salt, iron and various handicraft products into the three-pipe area, so as to lure the owners of various places to capture the raw mouth and exchange it.

This is the so-called "performance routine". It is nothing more than changing the performance venue, which is many times larger than Huangzhou in that year.

Yuwen Weigan felt that this method should succeed in the end, but Lingnan West Road is different from Huangzhou. There will inevitably be many problems during the development process. These problems may not have appeared yet, but he has to try to find them out.

This is the mission assigned to him by his father. He came to Lingnan West Road to "observe carefully" and discovered problems, rather than traveling around.

Now, Yuwen Weigan is summarizing possible problems.

He felt that the most likely big problem was that the wealthy families in the border areas would suffer sooner or later.

The border tyrants refer to the Chen family, Ning family and other Lingnan family. Although these two families are now respectful to the court and bow down to their heads, it does not mean that this will happen in the future.

The Ning and Chen tribes are already deeply rooted in Lingnan. Now they expand their power in Lingnan West Road, and have a large number of plantations to accumulate money. They can also legitimately hoard iron and even firearms. If this continues, how can they happen?

Yuwen Weigan felt that when his father was there, these wealthy families would never dare to act rashly. When his brother succeeded to the throne, they might be honest. However, as the elders in their clan passed away one after another, the new generations would not remember the great military power of the official army.

I only know that the west road of Lingnan is far away, and the family is deeply rooted, with countless subordinates, sufficient money and food, and excellent soldiers and armor. I will naturally have the intention of being unjust.

By then, these powerful children would overthrow the prefectures and county chiefs appointed by the court, and local affairs would gradually lose control. If the court wanted to resolve the problem, it would have many constraints and would have difficulty making a decision.

Once something happened in the Central Plains, these wealthy families were afraid that they would not have learned from Zhao Tuo at the end of the Qin Dynasty, blocked the Five Ridges passages, and closed the door and became king in Lingnan.

Furthermore, as the saying goes, "If the rabbit dies and the dog is cooked, the birds are kept hidden." These border tyrants may play the trick of colluding with bandits and raising bandits to respect themselves in order to threaten the court.

The "Dong Chaos" that will be suppressed in the west of Lingnan Road will be deliberately intensified, and the conflict between the government and the barbarians will be rebelled every few years. Then, in order to stabilize the situation, the court could only continue to let these wealthy families continue to "do things cheaply" in the west of Lingnan Road.

Will this happen? Yuwen Weigan thinks it will.

If the barbarians of the western road of Lingnan surrender and the officials appointed by the court can control the situation, then the private soldiers of the tribes such as the Chen family and the Ning family will be like dogs cooked by "dead rabbits and dogs", and will be useless.

In this way, the plantations opened by the wealthy families on the Lingnan West Road and the caravans selling salt and iron and Shengkou were no longer as tax-reduction benefits. When the Lingnan West Road became peaceful, merchants from the Central Plains flocked in and would also divide the wealthy families' business interests.

Therefore, keeping the situation in Lingnan West Road in a state of "small chaos every three to five years and big chaos every ten years" is undoubtedly the best choice for these Lingnan nobles.

Then, even if many cave lords are willing to cooperate with the government, they are likely to be forced to rise up, and the three-way land is always in a panic, so that outsiders dare not enter easily.

At that time, the so-called "Dong Chaos" might be the same as the "Qiang Chaos" in the Later Han Dynasty. It lasted for decades and could not be calmed down.

Yuwen Weigan read the Book of the Later Han Dynasty. The Longyou Qiang Rebellion in the late Later Han Dynasty lasted for decades. The court spent a lot of money on quelling the chaos, and the corvee service was heavy, but the rebellious Qiang people could not finish it.

What is the problem? Yuwen Weigan initially thought that the Qiang was powerful, but later he kept thinking about it, thinking that it might be a trick to raise the enemy to respect himself.

In the late Later Han Dynasty, the government was ruled by eunuchs, so the border chaos gradually arose, and the strength of Qiang and Di in Longyou, Hexi was also a fact, and this is the background of the times.

Specifically for the situation at that time, there were both the wealthy families in the border areas who were ready to move, using the rebellion of the Qiang and Di, and supporting the bandits and respecting themselves, and corrupt officials who took advantage of the "pacifying the Qiang Rebellion" to make great efforts to make great gains.

The rich people in the border areas did not want the Qiang Rebellion to end, otherwise they would not be able to expand their force justly.

The officials and generals of the court did not want the Qiang Rebellion to end, otherwise they would not be able to embezzle the military expenses from the continuous allocated, fill their personal pockets, and drink soldiers' blood.

This is not a random guess by Yuwen Weigan. The "Book of the Later Han Dynasty" clearly stated: From the rebellion of Yonghe Qiang to this year, the cost of more than 8 billion yuan in more than ten years.

Many generals cut off thefts and secretly brought in. They all used treasures to bribe the left and right, and were indulged in the upper and lower levels, and did not care about military affairs. The soldiers could not get the dead, and the bones were facing each other in the wild.

The Qiang Rebellion became a central official and a good opportunity for military generals to make a fortune. In more than ten years, more than 8 billion yuan of military expenditures in the imperial court (text). However, the Qiang Rebellion remained the same, and the wealthy families in the border areas became large.

More than 8 billion yuan (5zhu coins), equivalent to more than 8 million guan, is equal to fifteen years, which means spending at least 500,000 guan each year. Such an astonishing number and such a rich "project", who is willing to stop it?

Therefore, the Qiang Rebellion lasted for nearly a hundred years, but it could not be cured at all.

Countless officials and generals relied on the "Ping Qiang Rebellion" project and were full of oil. As a result, the country was dragged down, triggering the Yellow Turban Rebellion.

Thinking about it now, Yuwen Weigan feels that the future situation of Lingnan West Road may occur, and the "Dong Chaos" similar to the "Qiang Chaos", and it will come from time to time.

Although there may not be any court officials and generals can embezzle military expenditures or drink military blood, for the Lingnan rich families such as Ning and Chen, as long as the Lingnan West Road cannot be pacified, the court will inevitably be unable to bear the expenses of sending troops to suppress the rebellion for a long time.

Therefore, in order to save money and trouble, the powerful clans naturally allowed the armed forces to suppress the barbarians and assist the court in quelling the rebellion.

In order to stabilize the hearts of the people, the court could only acquiesce the wealthy families to have privileges in the west of Lingnan. Then these wealthy families gradually became popular and continued to secretly provoke the "Dong Chaos" in order to support the enemy.

Will this happen?

Yuwen Weigan felt that no one had the courage to do this when his father was there, because no one dared to make small moves could hide it from his father's eyes.

But it's hard to say in the future.

Before he knew it, Yuwen Wei wrote tens of thousands of words and wrote out his judgment, but as he was writing, he suddenly stopped writing.

My father’s request was to give a solution he thought was feasible while asking questions. Although this was just an assignment, Yuwen Weigan still wanted to achieve good results.

So, how to solve this problem? Or how to prevent it?

Yuwen Weigan fell into deep thought.

He went around the Three-Purpose Department and inspected the people's conditions on the spot. To be honest, he felt that this broken place was really not something that people could treat. It is conceivable that many officials (false officials) who took office in the Three-Purpose Department would be very desperate because it was like exile.

If you become an official in such a place, you will have no hope of promotion in the official career, so you can only exploit it desperately, at least gain some benefits, or bribe Shangguan in order to transfer yourself back to the Central Plains.

How can such an official educate the people and encourage farmers and mulberry trees during his term?

The people of the Central Plains probably wouldn't take the initiative to come to this broken place to open up land. After all, they really don't have enough food in their hometown, so they can still work in Huangzhou and other places. Why go to this smoky place to fight their lives?

Even if you go south, you will go to Guizhou area, Rongguan and Yongguan areas that will be affected by the "Dong Chaos" at any time, but at the beginning it is too attractive to the people.

Therefore, if you want to develop Lingnan West Road and gain popularity through business, you have to rely on the local wealthy families in Lingnan to be pioneers and open up the situation.

Only these people are willing to invest a lot of manpower and material resources to open up plantations, take risks to trade with the church owners, and exchange salt and iron tools for the mouth of life.

Today's third-level areas have a good start because of the implementation of such a policy and relying on the border tyrants to make way ahead, people in the north of the ridge are willing to cross mountains and clear up land and settle down.

However, the wealthy clan is not a fool. If the court asks people to open up the land while guarding the enemy, sooner or later the other party will refuse to do so.

Yuwen Weigan was not sure how to prevent the wealthy families from growing up on the premise of "effectively developing Lingnan".

Or, after setting up a prison prefecture and county in Lingnan West Road, it will take decades and hundreds of years to slowly "digest" it.

But with steamships, muskets and cannons, it is really unreasonable to not develop Lingnan West Road but to waste time.

Besides, it's really good to have a sugarcane plantation...

So, why not feudal?

For example, the emperor of Ji Zhou divided the princes, relied on the princes to conquer the four barbarians, and carried out the king's transformation?

Thinking of this, Yuwen Weigan scratched her head.
Chapter completed!