Sweep the World

For some dynasties that were unable to expand outwards, more people was a trouble and a burden to detonate domestic turmoil. After all, for such dynasties, the land was so big, and after repeated mergers, the land was concentrated in a few. In the hands of humans, most people can’t live without land. Are there any other choices besides making a living?

The Central Plains dynasty was not destroyed by foreign enemies many times. Even if it was destroyed by foreign races several times, most of the dynasties were destroyed because of the internal collapse of the foreign races. The most exaggerated one is that the "I Qing" of wild boar skin wiped out the Ming Dynasty with a population of 100 million by hundreds of thousands, and ruled the absolute majority with an absolute minority.

The Han Dynasty under Liu Yan’s rule is an offensive country. The population can only be large but not small. To put it bluntly, population will never be a burden to the country. On the contrary, it needs enough population to fill it after opening up the territory, otherwise No matter how vast the territory is laid down without the natives to live in and settle down, it will not last long.

Throughout the long history of China, many offensive dynasties are constantly expanding outward. They all face a common problem, that is, the people of their country are unwilling to emigrate after they have taken their territory.

After the former Qin and Han empires opened up new territories, they used compulsory measures to move people to settle in the new occupied areas, also in the Hetao area. The role of immigration filling is of course there, but the forced immigration has caused a lot of complaints from the people, and again because of some improper handling, the loss of the people on the Hetao side is too alarming, and even the phenomenon of being merged by the Husband.

The Qin Empire immigrated to the south of Yinshan Mountain. Because of the grazing skills at the time, the Qin people who immigrated to the past had actually gained a firm foothold. It was only the civil strife in the empire that led to Qin's demise. The living environment of this group of Qin people in Hetao was very bad. Not to mention Hulu's continuous attack. The Han Empire was also hostile. Their situation was changed during the reign of Liu Che in the Western Han Dynasty. Wei Qing had their help in attacking Hetao. .

The Han empire ruled the Hetao area for a long time, but due to the central policy, the Han people in the Hetao area had been humiliated at a certain stage. After the Han empire gave the Hetao to the southern Xiongnu as a habitat, the humiliated Han people actually It was accepted by the various tribes of the Huns.

When the rule of the Sima family in the Central Plains was ended by the Huns, Liu Yuan, it was true that Liu Yuan had the blood of the descendants of the Han family. The origin was that the Han Empire married the Huns many times. Many of the Xiongnu’s Shanyu’s Lan clan was indeed The princesses of the Han family, but those princesses are only clansmen or court ladies. Another reason he named the country he established as Han is that many of the Huns do indeed have Han ancestry.

In the many Hu people around the Central Plains, most of them actually have Han ancestry in their blood vessels. The reason for this phenomenon is quite simple. The Han family lost their borders, the people in the borders were forced to merge with the Hu people, or the Han women were robbed to give birth to offspring. If it is really pursued, not only are the Huns mostly of Han ancestry, but most of the Xianbei people are actually of Han ancestry. This theory is the inducement of Xianbei's autonomous Sinicization in the Northern Wei Dynasty, but it is not just Xianbei's learning of Han culture that broke his mind.

It is also Liu Yan's wish to integrate the Hu people. The difference is that what he wants is to actively integrate the Hu people instead of being led by the Hu people. Originally, he also wanted to melt the Hu people, make the Hu people identify with the Han culture and have the blood of the Han family, and use this group of people to enrich the frontiers.

Liu Yan has this idea because he has encountered problems encountered in all dynasties. The people of the Han family have a deep rejection of migration to the border life, and even have a deep-rooted idea of ​​"born in Sri Lanka and grown in Sri Lanka". Even if the same hinterland is unwilling to move, how can you expect to move to a new occupation area?

In the past, Han was also short of people. The restoration of one state after another was not only to regain lost land, but also to compete for population?

Now, in the north of the old land of the Han family, you are left with the areas of Youzhou, Liangzhou, Bingzhou, and Liaodong that have not been recovered. If they are all taken back, it is estimated that they will be able to increase the number of Han family by about three million, but it will only make the magnificent. The total population of Han has increased to about 1.8 million.

Taking the four families as one household, the population of 18 million is 4.5 million households. In fact, there are seven or eight people in one household, or even hundreds of people in one household. Similar phenomena are very common. Taking the 13 million registered in Han as an example, it is actually 1.5 million households. about.

A family has several or even more than a dozen "houses" at every turn, and one "house" contains dozens of people. It is not counted as a servant under the owner's name, but this family is a "household" on official records.

In view of the fact that the "household" cannot be used to accurately calculate the population of the whole country, the Han country uses the head count instead of the "household" to calculate. Many dynasties that use the "household" to calculate can only rely on guessing how many people are in their own country.

Han is very strict in its population registration. If you are a living person, you will have a record. Every quarter, a new round of verification will be carried out by the local area. What is verified is how many children died prematurely, how many old people died, and how many people died in accidents. The amount of such a project is so huge that if there were no large numbers of grassroots personnel who had retired from the military to the local level, it would actually be impossible to do it at all.

It is very important to know how many people there is in the country. As soon as there is no poll tax in Han, it is of course not purely for tax collection. It is of more important strategic significance, such as the number of suitable troops in the population of the country.

The 13 million population is currently the official statistics of Han, and there must be an omitted population. The number may be quite large, mainly because too many people hid in the deep mountains and old forests during the war. As far as Han is concerned, the risk of hiding the rich population is very high, so even if there is a hidden population, it will only be a minority.

Liu Yan remembers that in the early Han Dynasty...or every new founding period, there would be a policy to attract people hiding in deep mountains and old forests. That policy is the government-led system of equalization of land, that is, publishing how many acres of land a person can receive, and it really attracts a very large number of hidden people.

The Prime Minister’s Office has made relevant suggestions, and Liu Yan himself is hesitant. The Taiwei Office has delayed it because the country is currently at war.

"The big man is not in a state of war all the time." Ji Chang has achieved one of his goals, and said while the iron is hot: "In extraordinary times, take extraordinary measures."

The worries of the Taiwei Department are very real. Military soldiers can only obtain land awards if they work hard. The implementation of the old policy of land division will make the soldiers lose their enthusiasm for combat. Because it is a long-standing "old rule", the military of course cannot justly object to it, so it can only be delayed, or even want to delay indefinitely.

Liu Yan was extremely in favor of land rewards for childbirth, and even thought about what area of ​​land should be rewarded. According to his idea, the accessory of the reward policy is very important. For example, the rewarded land is in the border area, and then the original land of the family can be replaced, and the replacement is increased on the basis of the original holding.

Han is destined to be an offensive and pioneering country, and the population must not be mostly concentrated in the Central Plains as in the past dynasties, and should be more reasonably distributed. Considering the fact that the hometown is hard to leave is a deep-rooted thought, which can't be achieved by gentle means at all, and complete coercion will follow the mistakes of the Han empire, so it can only be half temptation and half coercion.

"The prime minister..." Liu Yanyu said earnestly: "It's not that the widow is stingy and doesn't want to divide the land with the people, but it has to be so."

Ji Chang was stunned.

It is indeed not that Liu Yan was stingy, but that once the strategy of equalizing the land was adopted in the early Han Dynasty, after everyone had land, the people would be more reluctant to relocate.

The most important thing for Liu Yan is that obtaining land with military merit will continue to tempt him to have the courage to maintain a sufficiently vigorous and enterprising spirit, which is in line with his goal of becoming at least the owner of the world island.

Now the people in the Han country who have no land account for about 60%. They all lease the country's land for farming. Even in this case, the country still has a large number of wasteland, and they can only use slaves to open up wasteland and turn it into fertile land.

To tell the truth, most of the slaves in Han were prisoners of war, and the Hu people accounted for the vast majority. The Hu people did not understand farming at all, and their labor efficiency was surprisingly low.

There is no way to use slaves for large-scale farming, and the Prime Minister’s Mansion has been forced to single out the area to plan pastures and cultivate war horses as the main purpose. Herding cattle and sheep can only be said to be incidental.

Didn't the Han army go south and annihilate the small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty? After the surrender of the Jin army, in addition to the Shui Sergeant's acquisition plan, the army in the Jin army became the largest source of labor for the state-owned farms. In addition, those big clans, powerful and aristocratic families who insisted on resisting were also one of the labors of the state-owned farms.

In dealing with the big clans, tycoons, and noble families who resisted, the Han state only condemned the first evil, and demoted the rest to slaves. The immediate relatives of the rebels were slaves for three generations, threatened to serve as slaves for the first life, and then as civilians in the country. They were not allowed to serve as officials for six generations.

The strict measures against those who resisted the rule of Han were mainly to deter, and the follow-up effect was very useful, at least that was what Huan Wen, who presided over the Qing and Suppression Campaign in the South, reported it.

Six days after Ji Chang deliberately sought out Liu Yan, another great dynasty meeting was held as scheduled.

"The Zhengbei Sequence has already approached Jinyang City. The Fuhong subordinates on the North Road looted and fled to the north. Li Tan sent the Second Cavalry Corps to follow." Xu Zheng said in a very voice. Hong Liang: "Prince, there is another news that Shihu is showing signs of giving up Dingxiang."

There are many officials participating in the Dachaohui, and many important events are reported at the Dachaohui, so those high-ranking nobles who are in the center without official positions must also participate. It's just that in the pioneering Han country, there were no idlers in the nobility, and all of them had official positions.

Shi Jie Zhao’s national policy had long been known to Han, it was Shi Hu who spoke publicly, not caring about the gains and losses of the site.

For Shihu may continue to flee, Han Guo has already made sufficient psychological preparations. They knew that after Shihu rebuilt the capital in Dingxiang, he wanted to recruit manpower and began to build the palace again, but they didn't expect that Shihu would really say so decisively and then leave.

Shi Hu is about to flee again. The thoughts on Han's side are more complicated. On the one hand, he is happy that it may not take much effort to regain the old land. On the other hand, he feels annoyed that there is not enough vitality to destroy Shi Jie.

In fact, Liu Yan felt that he didn't understand Shihu. He was a man who once ruled the Central Plains. Zhongyuan gave up when he said that he gave up. Why did he want to build a palace in Dingxiang since he didn't plan to defend Dingxiang?

"Shi Jie's northward flow of people and caravans continues for thousands of miles, and the communication is never cut off." Xu Zheng held the jade wat in his hand and shook his words, his tone was full of indignation: "Those materials are the people's anointing of the people, and the slaves who were driven out belonged to the big men. People, please discuss, increase the number of troops going north to join the war, attack Dingxiang as soon as possible, and enter Heshuo as soon as possible!"

At that moment, Ji Chang and other civil servants belonging to the Prime Minister's Mansion frowned.

The Han nation currently has too many troops on various fronts, and it is a test of food support. If there is no harvest from the Southwest Peninsula, in fact, this time the Northern Expedition will not be able to fight at all.

Even if it is the harvest of the Southwest Peninsula, the military ration that supports all fronts will also need to be domestically provided. If it is not for Liu Yan's resolute attitude, the normal choice of a country should be to stop the war and enter the stage of cultivation and recuperation.

The existing food was almost too much to support the consumption of the various troops. When Ji Chang heard that Xu Zheng was about to increase the number of troops participating in the war, his first impulse was to stand up and stop it.

However, Ji Chang had to be restrained, only because Shi Jie was really arbitrarily transferring materials and population. It was right to stop, but righteousness would be lost.

"It must be stopped." Liu Yan saw the reaction of Ji Chang and other civil officials, and knew that at this time the civil officials were in trouble. He said: "It's cheap to act with General Hussar."

Hussar General Ran Min is currently in Zhongshan County, Jizhou~www.wuxiamtl.com~, and his previous duties were directed against Murong Yanjun in Youzhou. Zhongshan County is next door to Dingxiang County. The capitals of the two counties are a bit far apart, and the middle area is completely deserted.

Xu Zhengcai doesn't care about the food. He only needs to pay attention to the war. Logistics is the responsibility of the Prime Minister's Office. Under the premise that the Taiwei's Office needs it, what means the Prime Minister's Office uses to obtain food is the matter of the Prime Minister's Office. His lips moved, and the corner of his eyes caught Ji Chang's murderous gaze, but he didn't say anything, and he could only return to the train after saluting.

Ji Chang and Liu Yan had long talked through the theme of this great dynasty meeting, waiting for Xu Zheng to retreat and sit down. Instead, he stood up and came to the middle with the jade wat in his hand.

"King!" Ji Chang saluted and said loudly: "Since ancient times, the prosperity of the country has been in the military and the economy, and the people are the roots of both. There are many people in the country, and the source of troops is endless, and so is production..."

Ji Chang said a lot. According to the usual practice, it was a series of great principles. Then he pointed out why those great principles were mentioned. The core is that the population of Han is too small. After rigorous and serious thinking and discussion at the Prime Minister's Mansion, he thought Encouraging childbirth is imperative. In order to make the people happy to give birth to the population, it is also necessary for the people to feed after the increase in the number of people, so there should be rewards....

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