Chapter 6653 Dilemma

Chapter 6653 Dilemma
After receiving the news that Liu Yan and Zhou Yu had been assassinated, Jia Xu personally led his team to Xinzhou. After all, for Jia Xu, nothing in the world was more important than his personal safety.

Compared to Zhou Yu's situation, where he mostly brought his own death upon himself, Liu Yan was still assassinated despite his security. Jia Xu felt that he really needed to investigate the situation carefully.

As a result, when Jia Xu arrived in Xinzhou and just began to investigate, Sima Lang was assassinated. This attack was still not done by the Yang family or the Yuan family, which was extremely outrageous.

"So, what are your Yang family and Yuan family doing?" Jia Xu asked expressionlessly, looking at Yang Hao and Yuan Jing who came to explain. However, this indifference made the two people who came to explain very helpless.

"Since the assassination of Doctor Liu in the last round, we stopped the plan for fear of getting into trouble again." Yang Hao suppressed his fear as much as possible and tried his best to explain what the two families had been doing recently. "Since then, the assassins arranged by our two families have been staying 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 want to hear such unnecessary explanation. He didn't care whether this matter had anything to do with the Yang family or the Yuan family, because the person who was assassinated was Sima Lang. Not to mention that he is not dead yet, even if he is dead, there are backup candidates to take over. It doesn't matter.

What really made Jia Xu calm down and think was actually the current situation in Xinzhou. Jia Xu had never been to Xinzhou before. All the information about Xinzhou mainly came from the intelligence system of Guo Jia and others. There was only an overall understanding constructed by the intelligence system. In this understanding, Jia Xu believed that there were certain problems in Xinzhou. But when he really came to Xinzhou...

Jia Xu had only one feeling: chaos. The situation here was extremely chaotic, and because of the population migration problem, the social contradictions at the bottom of society were also quite large. Thanks to the fact that Xinzhou was still in an era of lush grass and water, and the years of operation by the thirty-six kingdoms in the Western Regions, this area had long been turned into fertile land, and the most basic local operations could be maintained by large-scale land rewards.

However, the people from different places, with different customs and cultures, as well as the remnants of the thirty-six kingdoms, settled in New South Wales, and the resulting underlying conflicts were actually quite serious.

Although from the perspective of pure rule, turning social contradictions into grassroots contradictions and instigating internal strife among the grassroots is beneficial to national rule, even if there will be a certain amount of internal friction, it reduces the cost of rule to a certain extent. After all, if the people at the bottom sit together and think in unity about why they are like this, then the upper class will have to consider whether it is time to cut their own flesh.

But from Jia Xu's point of view, Jia Xu, who had experienced the Qiang Rebellion, knew very well that with the current chaos in Xinzhou, if a spark was thrown in, it would most likely explode, repeating the situation in Liangzhou back then.

As for whether they are Han people or locals, it actually doesn't make any sense. The main force of the Qiang rebellion was no longer Qiang people. After all, many nominal ethnic conflicts, when really viewed from a high level, will be found to be essentially class conflicts caused by interests.

Jia Xu was not aware of the class contradictions mentioned later, but he was very clear about how Liangzhou, where he lived, exploded. So after he actually came here, he no longer paid attention to Sima Lang, but focused on how to defuse the bomb.

After sending Yang Hao and Yuan Jing away, Jia Xu sat aside and began to think quietly. Soon Liu Yan came in from outside. At this time, his injuries had healed long ago, but Jia Xu asked Liu Yan to conceal this first to see if there were any others who had ideas about assassination.

"Wenhe, was it you who did that thing about Sima Boda?" Liu Yan looked at Jia Xu and asked in surprise. When Jia Xu did this, he did not hide it from Liu Yan, so compared to the confusion that other people were in, Liu Yan saw through it at a glance, but after seeing it clearly, he was even more puzzled.

"I just went with the flow and vented the Qiang people's anger towards Sima Lang." Jia Xu said calmly, "To some extent, I saved Sima Lang's life."

"I'm just wondering why you have to use such a drastic method." Liu Yan looked at Jia Xu in confusion and asked, "There are obviously other ways, and this method is completely inconsistent with your normal handling habits. It makes me feel very strange."

"Even someone like you who knows me well finds it strange, let alone others." Jia Xu said calmly, "Sima Lang did a terrible job this time. It is reasonable for Yuan and Yang to exchange one for one, 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 this. He was not blind. The problems in Xinzhou were huge. Moreover, they were different from those places such as Parthia, Central and South China and the Ganges. The Han Dynasty had won those places through legitimate battles and seized the legitimacy by force. There was no need to show mercy or be lenient to the locals.

Although the Han Dynasty also had a soft side when dealing with these people and was not blindly tough, it was able to take some actions that completely treated people as inhumane when necessary. After all, those places were not the core areas owned by the Han Dynasty. Even if the Han families who went there had a sense of responsibility, their own interests were definitely put first.

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

But Xinzhou is different. Xinzhou is the passage from the northwest to the Han Dynasty and it is a newly established prefecture of the Han Dynasty. Its population has been included in the ranks of the country's citizens from the very beginning, so many actions are impossible to carry out. After all, Chen Xi, the top leader, is moral and it is impossible for him to kill local people indiscriminately.

As a result, New South Wales is currently in a powder keg, or to put it more directly, New South Wales has not been cleaned up from the beginning.

These existing problems were only suppressed with the migration of population and Sima Lang's administration, but with the passage of time and the low efficiency of the development of the Northwest Corridor, these suppressed problems gradually surfaced.

"From this point of view alone, Sima Lang's operation of replacing the population of Xinzhou was actually correct. Because only by replacing all the people in Xinzhou, or replacing more than 80% of them, can we eliminate the population conflicts caused by locals and outsiders from the root." Jia Xu said 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 the land and houses. How did the land and houses come from them? Weren't they taken from the non-citizens of the Thirty-Six Countries who were migrated away?
Back then, Sima Lang exchanged two non-citizens of the Thirty-Six Kingdoms and Han commoners for one, or even three for one, for the noble families passing through here. This was a strategy that killed several birds with one stone. However, Sima Lang wanted to eliminate the problem once and for all by this move, which led to a significant decrease in the population of Xinzhou. In the end, he was warned by Chen Xi and Li You respectively.

"Having 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 have to say that Sima Lang's behavior was too radical. He had other options in the early days. The most important point for the mess later was that he was only concerned about his own interests from the beginning."

Liu Yan is no pushover either. As the head of the Ministry of Human Resources for so many years, he has seen a lot of things. There is nothing wrong with Sima Lang's ability, Sima Lang's judgment, and Sima Lang's analysis of the grassroots conflicts in New South Wales, but the solution he finally came up with was obviously based on family interests rather than national interests.

"We agreed that Sima Boda gave up his position in Chang'an and came to Xinzhou. We said at the time that this was to pave the way for the Sima family. We chose to accept it at the time, but we said that Sima Boda would never have the opportunity to enter Chang'an again." Jia Xu looked at Liu Yan calmly and said, "I think it's acceptable that he didn't do anything bad on purpose."

Liu Yan did not refute when he heard this. This was indeed a fact. After all, it was agreed that Sima Lang went to Xinzhou to pave the way for his family. Therefore, they would accept any behavior within a certain degree. It was just that Sima Lang had really gone too far these times.

"We didn't eliminate the hidden dangers at their roots back then, and now the conflicts between the former locals of Xinzhou and the people who migrated here are getting bigger and bigger because of disputes over land and water. In addition, Sima Boda's split-up village merger to reduce conflicts did reduce conflicts in the early days, but now it is causing the conflicts between villages to grow." Jia Xu said with a cold face.

Sima Lang's early plan was basically equivalent to changing the cage and replacing the bird. To be honest, this was a very outrageous plan in itself. However, considering that the Thirty-Six Kingdoms in the Western Regions were only influenced by the Han Dynasty and were not considered to be the ruling areas of the Han Dynasty, and the people had not fully accepted Hanization, Sima Lang colluded with the Central Asian families to carry out a forced two-for-one or even three-for-one exchange, transferring the people of the Thirty-Six Kingdoms to Central Asia.

When they arrived in the lawless land of Central Asia, the Han family had plenty of ways to subdue these people. Even if they couldn't subdue them, the Han family also had ways to solve the problem if the people of the thirty-six countries in the Western Regions became hateful and joined forces with the bandits in their homeland of Parthia.

After all, just because some methods cannot be used in the moral land of our country does not mean that they cannot be handled in the lawless land of Central Asia. At worst, isn’t there still the method of humanitarian destruction?
In fact, there is a reason why these places in Central Asia are called lawless places. Ever since Chen Xi said that the major families are not bound by laws, unless one party sues the other, the top leaders of the Han Dynasty will send the court judge to provide legal assistance to both parties one by one and answer their questions one by one.

After this clear regulation came out, the Central Asian families would not deliberately seek legal aid as long as they were not stupid. After all, each family knew their own situation well. A legal aid led by the Chief Justice might, while dealing with the opponent, also deal with their own family. After all, which family would be a rookie? To put it bluntly, if the major families were to impose three cups of wine as punishment on ordinary people, the whole family might be killed.

Therefore, the noble families in Central Asia never reported to the authorities, but handled everything on their own. Over time, this led to the situation where the law was the standard in the Han homeland, while outside the homeland, fists were the rule and there was lawlessness.

Therefore, many problems that take several generations to solve with morality and education at home can be solved in just a few seconds after going abroad. As for the accumulation of hatred, for the collective, it is never hatred but interests that prolong the war.

Hatred is more of an individual thing, while hatred under the collective will is more of an inducement, and interests are the real core.

So when the exchange ratio was 2:1 or 3:1, Sima Lang was very happy, as 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 truly high-quality population that had been influenced by the radiation of Han culture and was much easier to absorb than the people of Parthia. As for what problems would be caused by such buying and selling of migrating populations, who cared?

If it doesn't work, you can also put the blame on others. For example, the kings of the thirty-six countries in the Western Regions took the national assets to Chang'an to enjoy a good life, and some kings even plundered the land before leaving. The reason you are being forcibly relocated now is actually because your kings sold you to us. Blah blah blah, if you want to blame someone, blame your kings, we paid for it.

As for the houses you have built and the fields you have reclaimed, there is nothing we can do about it. When your king left, he transferred all of you to us. Now we have brought you to Central Asia. How about this: we will redistribute the houses and fields 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 did not have any better solutions. On the one hand, their military force was really no match for the Han family. On the other hand, things had come to this point, and the Han family was still willing to say nice things and even lie to them, so they had to just muddle through.

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

As a new state that will undertake the important task of building the Northwest Corridor in the future, if it does not even have a population of one million, then not to mention providing food and supplies along the way, even maintaining the roads may become a burden. Therefore, after Chen Xi and Li You noticed Sima Lang's crazy move of changing personnel, they quickly stopped him.

This suppression planted a serious hidden danger for Xinzhou. After Sima Lang's conscription of young men to exchange for new people, the local people of Xinzhou, who had migrated in batches, were inherently resistant to Sima Lang. Even though Sima Lang later changed his style and relied on the sparsely populated nature of Xinzhou to build many model villages and model counties, he washed away his bad reputation.

But those who have experienced it personally will still not believe it.

This is the root of a series of subsequent problems. The conflicts between the locals and the outsiders in the Thirty-Six Countries were also caused from here, and Sima Lang has been unable to solve this problem. This is not something that can be suppressed by spiritual talent like spring breeze, but real interests.

"The most important point about Sima Lang's courage to coerce Yuan Yang this time is that he also realizes that it is difficult for anyone else to take his position now. The underlying contradictions arising from the overall environment of Xinzhou make him irreplaceable to a certain extent at present." Jia Xu made the final summary.

Liu Yan sighed when he heard this. Sima Lang was not a fool after all. Even if he was limited by what he had learned in his youth, he would not fail to realize that his behavior was like sitting on the crater of a volcano after being pointed out by a group of people. The reason he had come to this point was not simply because God wanted to destroy him by making him crazy, 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 is the governor who has been in charge of Xinzhou since its establishment. He knows how those conflicts arose and which thread is the key to connecting these people and personnel. After he is removed, the newcomers will only cause this place to explode." Jia Xu said, pointing to the locations of several county governments on the map.

"Local conflicts are too serious, and the pace of development is too slow. The lower-class people are caught in a state of mutual involution. Although they still have 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 said with a sigh.

However, Liu Yan could understand this. There was no other way. The people of the Thirty-Six Kingdoms lived well in the past, and then they were forcibly relocated. The part that moved 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 a year or two, the continuous flow of benefits had long made this group of people forget their grievances.

After all, the money that truly falls into your pocket is your own money, and whether you are living a good or bad life cannot be deceived by verbal propaganda. In fact, the individual's self-feeling is very clear. It does not increase just because you say it will. In fact, you know what you eat, drink, spend, and whether you are tight on money.

Therefore, the people of the thirty-six countries who were relocated to the Central Plains were just like the local people whose homes were forcibly demolished when Chen Xi merged his villages and villages. After cursing the government for two years, they would accept that the government was indeed doing a good job, but there were holes in its thinking when it came to execution, and they would not be really angry.

Of course, there are bound to be some people whose brains are too stubborn to think straight, just like the hundreds of thousands of people who climbed out of the mountains during the super cold wave a few years ago. No matter how much their relatives persuaded them, or even when the facts were laid out in front of them, they still refused to admit their 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, but waited until Sima Lang became the governor and joined forces with the Han family to relocate, were unlucky. Moreover, this wave of forced relocation led to very serious consequences as the speed of development could not keep up and the butcher's knife could not be used. The root of almost all the forces in Xinzhou that opposed Sima Lang lay here.

"If someone else comes, unless they have Chen Zichuan's ability, even 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 resolve it." Jia Xu looked at Liu Yan and sighed, "Up to 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 and Yang families collide with Sima Lang, Xinzhou may also be in turmoil. Sima Lang's death will completely explode Xinzhou, which was originally undercurrent." Jia Xu said seriously, "But if we don't give Sima Lang this blow, some things will be unbearable."

Sima Lang is dead, and certain local conflicts are no longer suppressed at the top level. The region, which was originally stabilized by the benefits and a little favor given by Sima Lang from time to time, may directly erupt into a county-level or even prefecture-level riot in the next water dispute.

But if he didn't give him this blow, some guys who couldn't stand Sima Lang any more might take action themselves and lose control, which would directly cause unrest in the government office. So for safety's sake, Jia Xu manually sent Sima Lang to lie aside. He would not die. The news was even very clear and explicit, because of the top doctors from Chang'an. Sima Lang would not die, but he would definitely be seriously injured, because the top doctors from Chang'an did not bring Sima Lang back to life on the spot.

"I don't know how to investigate Sima Lang's problem now. The idea of ​​simply keeping the land but not the people can indeed solve the problem, but this idea is too cruel. It is impossible for a normal person to think of such an operation. From this point of view..." Jia Xu sighed and just looked at Liu Yan quietly.

Liu Yan did not answer, but the answer was already in his mind. There was nothing to say. To be able to implement a policy of retaining land but not people was not a matter of determination. It was a real act of not treating the locals as human beings. Sima Lang, who looked gentle and kind, could implement such a plan. What that meant was actually self-evident.

"This kind of plan must either be completed completely or the locals must be completely frightened. The half-finished situation like now is the worst." Jia Xu sighed. Without mentioning the character and morality that Chen Xi likes to talk about, from the perspective of work alone, Jia Xu did not think that there was anything wrong with Sima Lang's handling of the matter, because given the situation in Xinzhou at the time, cutting the Gordian knot was the most correct approach.

Completely eliminate the remnants of the Thirty-Six Kingdoms, and then after counting the migrated population, 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 is that it may not 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 very beginning, but he didn't expect to be interrupted by Chen Xi and Li You in the middle. He had no way to clean up the mess and could only lie down.

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