Chapter 636 Mianbei Investment Promotion
Jingzhou is located to the south of the Qinling Mountains, and the flood season and farming season arrive earlier than Guanzhong. When Li Tai returned to Jingzhou, farming was busy in the countryside.
On some lands that had been abandoned for a long time, there are also figures of hard-working people cultivating them. Many long-abandoned village ruins have been cleared out, and some temporary shacks and felt tents have been erected on the spot, inhabited by newly arrived people.
Soon after Li Tai came to rule Jingzhou, he successively issued various decrees such as encouraging farming and expanding households, aiming to revive the people's livelihood economy in the Nanyang Basin.
At the beginning, people were often unfamiliar with the laws because they were not accustomed to them. However, as time went by and the decrees were steadily implemented, the contents of these decrees gradually became deeply rooted in the hearts of the people and became an important factor in maintaining stability in the Mianbei area today. Order and regulations.
Li Tai returned to town now and also brought a large number of personnel from Guanzhong. Last year, he had already encouraged Qumeng Xianghao to invest the resources they had in Jingzhou, and he had transferred many human resources there.
Although these investments have not yet seen significant returns, a series of war victories in the second half of last year also gave people great confidence and stimulated their pace of additional investment.
In the ancient social environment, large-scale cross-regional mobility of human resources required either the use of state power to force migration, or frequent natural and man-made disasters forcing people to leave their homes.
As for the large-scale movement of people in a short period of time based on the pursuit of interests, it is not common. This is because the development level of the industrial and commercial environment in ancient times was not high enough. Of course, it is also due to the strict control of the registered population by the imperial court and the government.
The ancient society with land rent and ding tax as the main tax method was destined to have a firm grasp on land and population. Once the control of these two was relaxed, the decline of the regime would not be far away.
Although Li Tai can now be said to have a high position in the Western Wei Dynasty, if he is blatantly poaching the Taifu government and attracting a large number of Guanzhong people to the Nanyang Basin, the Taifu government will not sit idly by and will definitely take action to stop it. .
However, population is not the resource that the Nanyang Basin is in urgent need of now. The newly acquired land of Handong already has a large population. In addition, Li Taidong conquered the people who were kidnapped from various places and brought them back to Jingzhou, as well as a steady stream of people from the lower reaches of the Yangtze River. The people of Nanliang who fled westward now also regard the land under Li Tai's rule as a target of defection.
In short, due to various reasons, the population under Jingzhou's rule has surged, and it has even exceeded the number of people that the local productivity development level can support.
Therefore, what is most urgently needed in the Nanyang Basin right now is to continue to overhaul water conservancy, improve the farming environment, and vigorously develop agricultural production and various handicraft production, and all of this requires the investment of massive financial resources.
Before leaving Guanzhong, Li Tai also held a series of consultations with the people of the Taiwan government on this matter, hoping that the Taiwan government could encourage and support the transfer of money and goods resources from Guanzhong to the Nanyang Basin.
Because the fastest and most convenient passage from Guanzhong to Nanyang Basin is Wuguan, and Wuguan has always been directly controlled by the Tai government due to its huge strategic value. Therefore, if you want to carry out large-scale transportation of people and goods, it is absolutely impossible to hide it from the eyes and ears of the Taiwan government.
Although Li Tai had previously opened up a Ziwuling-Hanshui channel, with the recovery of the Hanzhong area in Shannan, this line was no longer suitable for frequent platform operations.
Of course, the most fundamental reason is that Li Tai's powerful position is no longer suitable for too many conspiratorial actions. Even if it can be effective in a short time, it will still be harmful in the long run.
With the resources and channels he currently has at his disposal, he can also bypass the control of the Taiwan government and realize the transfer of materials, but it is impossible to say that it is done in such a way that no one can know about it.
Even if there is no conclusive evidence, there will definitely be rumors. Even if these rumors are not enough to hurt Li Tai, in the long run they will increase the cost of the Taiwan government's trust in him, thereby imposing obstacles and obstructions in other aspects.
So it would be better to have a frank talk with the Taiwan government. Today, the Jingzhou General Administration requires a large amount of money and resources to be invested to promote local recovery and development, so it needs to raise funds in Guanzhong.