Actually!
It was not that Liu Hao had not thought of inciting these starving people and then directly starting an uprising. He might as well just rebel.
However, this thought only went through Liu Hao's mind once before he gave up.
First of all, he might not be able to organize all these tens of thousands of people to rebel.
Secondly, even if he had organized them, these refugees were still a motley crew. Among them, the old, weak, sick, and disabled accounted for the vast majority. One of the young and strong often had to support three or four old people.
They had no combat strength at all.
If they were organized in a hurry, the Qing army could directly slaughter them all without waiting for them to rebel.
The current Qing army was still very strong.
During the Qianlong period, the war never stopped. After pacifying Junggar and the big and small Jinchuan, the combat power of the Qing army was still considerable. Even in the late Qing Dynasty, it was not without the power to fight.
However, at that time, the Qing government's worldview had been completely destroyed by the firearms of the West. They completely doubted life and truly understood that they could no longer defeat foreign guns and cannons with swords and swords.
Right now, he did not have any foreign guns or cannons, nor did he have enough prestige.
He was simply dreaming if he thought that he would be able to call for a hundred people to respond to him.
Pulling these refugees to rebel with him was completely courting death.
However, Liu Hao also understood that this was impossible.
If he wanted to rebel, he had to cultivate a group of interest groups that belonged to him, which was the capitalist revolution. This was also the best way Liu Hao could think of at the moment.
As for the uprising of the White Lotus Society twenty years later…
This was because the corrupt elements led by He Shen had gone all out to corrupt and corrupt the Qing government, causing the Qing government to collapse.
Currently, the Qing government's organizational ability was still very strong.
He Shen was straightforward and quickly prepared many bailiffs for Liu Hao. Other than these, there was also 100,000 taels of silver. Of course, when He Shen reported to the Ministry of Revenue, he spent a total of 1 million taels of silver.
Among them, 100,000 was given to Liu Hao.
The rest of the big heads went to the Internal Affairs Office.
This was also the way He Shen and Qianlong split the spoils.
Most of them were from the Internal Affairs Office.
The money in the national treasury belonged to the country, while the money in the Internal Affairs Office belonged to the emperor's small treasury.
In history, many people said that Heshen was the gift that Qianlong left for Jiaqing. In fact, this statement was not completely correct. The biggest gift that Qianlong left for Jiaqing was actually the Internal Affairs Office.
He Shen's family property was worth eight hundred million taels of silver, which included many jewels, paintings, and land.
On the other hand, the Ministry of Internal Affairs had more than 100 million taels of silver. In the face of the White Lotus Society's uprising, when the national treasury could not take out silver, it was the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Qianlong who took out more than 100 million taels of silver to suppress the White Lotus Society's uprising.
And this was also an important turning point in the decline of the Qing Dynasty.
It was said that He Shen was the biggest corrupt official in the Qing Dynasty. In fact, the biggest corrupt official in the Qing Dynasty was Qianlong.
A hundred thousand taels of silver was not a small sum.
Liu Hao also immediately bought a large amount of food. At the same time, he set up porridge stalls and farms in the suburbs of the capital and arranged for refugees to settle in.
The place that Liu Hao had arranged was actually quite a distance away from Beijing.
The place they arranged for was Tong County. This place was actually the future Tongzhou District. Now, it was obvious that this place had not been developed yet. They let a large number of refugees live here and arranged for them to make a living.
A notable feature of the Qianlong period was the increase in population. In the sixth year of Qianlong (1740), the number of registered people in the country exceeded 100 million for the first time in the history of China's population statistics, reaching 140 million. After that, the population reproduction became more and more vigorous, with an annual growth rate of more than 20%.
By the 27th year of Qianlong (1790), it broke through 300 million.
However, there was still a huge gap between 300 million people and 1.4 billion people. This was a gap of more than four times.
A population of 300 million was still relatively sparsely populated. It was not impossible to find a part of the wasteland and reclaim it.
In fact, Liu Hao had also calculated that a portion of the land was in the hands of the landowners. Moreover, what was even more outrageous was that they would rather leave a portion of the land barren than farm.
If there was more food, the price of food would drop.
At the same time, the more land they planted, the more taxes they had to pay.
After the farmers entered the fields, the Qing Dynasty began to hide the population into the land.
Liu Hao could do nothing about this. Unless he took the lives of these landowners, taking their land would definitely cause a civil revolt.
After some consideration, Liu Hao would not foolishly open up wasteland. At the same time, he also started to develop the Ministry. Part of it was the handicraft industry, and part of it was the animal husbandry industry.
Apart from buying some food, Liu Hao also bought a large number of chickens and ducks. They were all raised from infancy.
The chickens and ducks of the later generations had all gone through excellent selection and some good feed. They could often grow up quickly in a month and enter the dining table.
In this era, it was simply not so fast.
This required time and a lot of Liu Hao's energy to deal with.
Teaching these refugees how to raise these chickens and ducks, and at the same time preventing theft, these were all from scratch, and Liu Hao needed to constantly sum up his experience.
These bailiffs from the county government were actually not easy to use. Often, the money given to them would be pocketed.
Liu Hao had no choice but to find a few fortune-tellers to register his household. At the same time, Liu Hao also had to remember everyone's identity, gender, marriage, and whether they were old or young. Then, he would judge what kind of people he could use and what kind of people he could not use.
This was a form of training for Liu Hao's abilities.
In his previous life, Liu Hao was a party member and a basic civil servant. He had also gone to the countryside to help the poor.
However, it was different from his previous life. In his previous life, he had a powerful political party and many people around him to help him. However, it was not possible in this Qing Dynasty.
He had to start from scratch.
Moreover, when he first set up the porridge stall, there were only a few hundred people who came. However, as time passed, more and more refugees came to his place.
Tens of thousands of refugees were all gathered here, and the pressure on the management was multiplied by several times.
However, in its place, this small village had a faint trend of development. Over time, many people actually appeared.
Within a month, more than 2,000 families had gathered here.
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