Chapter 540

In some imperial dynasties that were unable to open up to the outside world, more people were a trouble and a burden to detonate domestic unrest. After all, for such a dynasty, the land is so large, and after repeated mergers, the land is concentrated in the hands of a few people. Most people can't live without land. What other choice can they have except to rise up and earn a living?

The Central Plains imperial dynasty was destroyed by foreign enemies a few times. Even if it was destroyed by foreign nationalities several times, except for the Song Dynasty, most imperial dynasties were destroyed by internal disintegration, which allowed foreign nationalities to take advantage. The most exaggerated one is the "I Qing" of wild boar skin, which destroyed the Ming Dynasty with hundreds of thousands of people, and ruled the absolute majority with an absolute minority.

The Han parliament under Liu Yan's rule was an aggressive country, with a large population but not a small population. To put it bluntly, the population will never be a burden on the country. On the contrary, it needs enough population to fill after opening up the territory. Otherwise, it will not last long to lay down a vast territory without its own people.

Throughout the long history of China, many aggressive imperial dynasties are constantly opening up to the outside world. They all face a common problem, that is, after laying down their territory, their people are unwilling to move to the past.

After opening up new territories, the former Qin and Han empires took compulsory measures to move people to the newly occupied territory, and the place was also in Hetao area. Of course, immigration filling plays a role, but compulsory immigration makes people complain a lot. In addition, it is because some people are not handled properly. The loss rate of people on the other side of Hetao is too amazing, and even the phenomenon of being integrated by hooligans.

The Qin Empire immigrated to the south of Yinshan Mountain. Because there were grazing skills at that time, the Qin people who immigrated to the past had actually gained a firm foothold, but the internal strife of the Empire led to the demise of Qin. The living environment of this group of Qin people in Hetao was very bad. Hu Lu kept attacking and cutting. The Han Empire was also hostile. Their situation was changed during the rule of Liu Che in the Western Han Dynasty, and Wei Qing had their help in attacking Hetao.

The Han Empire ruled Hetao for a long time, but due to the relationship of central policy, in fact, at a certain stage, the Han people in Hetao had long been Hu Hua. After the Han empire gave Hetao to the southern Huns as a habitat, those Hu Hua Han people were actually accepted by various tribes of the Huns.

When the Sima family's rule in the Central Plains was ended by the Hun Liu Yuan, it was true that Liu Yuan had the descendants of the Han Royal family. The origin was that the Han Empire had married the Huns many times. A considerable number of Hun Shan Yu's Kan family were indeed Han princesses, but those Princesses were only imperial concubines or palace maids. Another reason why he named his country Han is that many Xiongnu people do have Han descent.

In fact, most of the Hu people around the Central Plains have Han blood in their veins. The reason for this phenomenon is quite simple. The Han family lost the border, the border people were forced to integrate with the Hu people, or the Han women were looted and gave birth to offspring. If we really pursue it, not only most of the Xiongnu people have Han family lineage, but also most of the Xianbei people have Han family lineage. This theory is the inducement of Xianbei's independent Sinicization in the Northern Wei Dynasty, but it is not just that Xianbei's learning of Han culture has damaged his brain.

It is also Liu Yan's wish to integrate the Hu people. The difference is that he wants to take the initiative to integrate the Hu people, not dominated by the Hu people. Originally, he also wanted to melt the Hu people, make the Hu people recognize the Han culture and have the Han family lineage, and use this group of people to enrich the border areas.

Liu Yan had this idea because he encountered the problems encountered by all dynasties. The Han people had a deep rejection of the migration border life, and even had the deep-rooted idea of "being born in Si and growing up in Si". Even if the same hinterland is unwilling to move, how can we expect to move to the new occupied area?

Before the Han Dynasty, there was also a shortage of people. Recovering one state after another was not only to regain lost land, but also to compete for population?

At present, Youzhou, Liangzhou, Bingzhou and Liaodong have not been recovered in the north of the old land of the Han family. If they are all taken back, it is estimated that about 3 million more Han Miao descendants can be added, but it only increases the total population of the huge Han country to about 18 million.

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

A family often has several or even more than a dozen "houses". A "house" is dozens of people, not counting the servants under its name, but the family is a "household" in the official records.

In view of the fact that it is impossible to accurately calculate the national population by "household", the Han state adopted the head count instead of "household". Many dynasties calculated by "household" can only guess how many people there are in their country.

In the Han Dynasty, population registration is very strict. If you are a living person, you will have records, and a new round of verification will be carried out by the local government every quarter. It is verified that how many children died, how many old people died, and how many people died in accidents. Such a huge amount of work would be impossible without a large number of grass-roots personnel retired from the military to the local government.

It is very important to know how many people there are in the country. There is no poll tax in the Han country. Naturally, it is not just for tax collection, but for more important strategic significance, such as how many suitable sources of troops there are in the national population.

The 13 million population is the current official statistics of the Han state. There must be a missing population. The number may be quite large, mainly because too many people hid in deep mountains and forests during the war. For the Han country, the hidden population of the rich and powerful is at great risk, so even if there is a hidden population, it will only account for a minority.

Liu Yan remembers that in the early Han Dynasty... Or every new founding period, there was a policy to attract people hiding in the mountains and forests. That policy is the land sharing system led by the government, that is, it releases how many mu of land a person can receive, which really attracts a very large hidden population.

The prime minister's office has put forward relevant suggestions. Liu Yan himself holds a hesitant attitude. The Taiwei office has delayed it because the country is in a state of war.

"The big man is at war all the time." Ji Chang's goal has been achieved. First, strike while the iron is hot and say, "when it's extraordinary, take extraordinary measures."

The worries of the Taiwei office are very realistic. Military officers and men can only get land awards by working hard. The implementation of the old policy of land distribution will make officers and men lose their enthusiasm for combat. Because it is a long-standing "old practice", of course, the military can not oppose it righteously, so it can only delay, or even want to postpone indefinitely.

Liu Yan extremely agreed that giving birth to children could get land rewards, and even thought about what areas of land should be rewarded. According to his idea, the accessories of the reward policy are very important. For example, the land rewarded is in the border land, and then the original land of the family can be replaced, which will be increased on the basis of the original holding.

Han is destined to be an aggressive and pioneering country. The population must not be concentrated in the Central Plains as in previous dynasties, and should be distributed more reasonably. Considering that it is a deep-rooted idea that it is difficult to leave home, it is impossible to do it completely by gentle means, and complete coercion will follow the mistakes of the Han Empire, then it can only be half temptation and half coercion.

"Prime minister..." Liu Yan said earnestly, "it's not because I'm stingy and don't want to divide the land among the people, but I have to."

Ji Chang was stunned.

Indeed, Liu Yan is not stingy. Once the land equalization strategy similar to that in the early Han Dynasty is adopted, people will be more reluctant to move out after everyone has land.

The most important thing for Liu Yan is that the acquisition of land by military merit will continue to tempt the brave to maintain a strong enough enterprising spirit, which is in line with his goal of at least becoming the owner of the world island.

At present, about 60% of the Han people have no land. They lease the country's land for farming. Even so, there are still a large number of wasteland in the country. They can only use slaves to open up wasteland and turn it into good farmland.

To tell the truth, most of the slaves in the Han Dynasty came from 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. The prime minister's office has been forced to select regional planning 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 destroy the small imperial court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty? After the surrender of the Jin army, in addition to the enlistment plan of the water soldiers, the army in the Jin army became the largest source of labor in the state-owned farms. In addition, the big families, powerful and aristocratic families who insisted on resistance were also one of the labor forces in the state-owned farms.

In dealing with the rebellious big families, powerful and aristocratic families, the state of Han adopted only the first evil, and the rest were demoted to slaves. The immediate relatives of the rebels were slaves for three generations, coerced into slavery for the first time, and then became national civilians. They were not allowed to be officials for six generations.

Harsh measures were taken against those who resisted the rule of the Han state, mainly for shock and deterrence. The follow-up effect was very useful. At least Huan Wen, who presided over the clean-up and suppression war in the south, reported it.

Six days after Ji Chang deliberately looked for Liu Yan, another grand meeting was held as scheduled.

"The northern expedition has arrived at the foot of Jinyang city. Fu Hong's headquarters on the North Road, they plundered wantonly and fled north. Li Tan sent the second cavalry corps to follow." Xu Zheng, the Taiwei, spoke in a loud voice: "Sir, there is another news that Shi Hu shows signs of giving up Dingxiang."

There are many officials participating in the Grand Court meeting, and many major events are reported at the Grand Court meeting. Therefore, those high-ranking nobles who are in the center and have no official positions must also participate. However, in the founding stage of the Han state, there were no idle people among the nobles, all of whom had official positions.

Shi Jie Zhao's national policy was learned by the Han Dynasty that Shi Hu spoke publicly and didn't care about the gains and losses of the territory.

For Shi Hu may continue to flee, the state of Han has been fully prepared. They knew that after Shi Hu re established the capital in Dingxiang, he wantonly recruited manpower and began to build palaces again, but they didn't expect that Shi Hu really decided to go again.

Shi Hu wants to escape again. The idea of the Han country is more complex. On the one hand, he is happy that it may not take much effort to recover the old land. On the other hand, he is chagrined that he has not eliminated enough effective forces of Shi Jie.

In fact, Liu Yan felt that he didn't understand Shi Hu. He was a man who once ruled the Central Plains. The Central Plains said to give up. Since he didn't intend to stick to Dingxiang, why did he build a palace?

"The flow of people and motorcade to the north of Shijie are thousands of miles, and the traffic has never been cut off." Xu Zheng, holding Yu Wat in his hand, said with a flash of indignation: "those materials are the people's fat and cream, and the driven slaves are the people of the Han Dynasty. Please discuss, increase the troops going north to fight, attack Dingxiang as soon as possible, and kill Heshuo as soon as possible!"

At that moment, Ji Chang and other civil servants affiliated to the prime minister's house frowned.

At present, there are too many troops on all fronts in the Han Dynasty, which is a great test of food support. If there were no harvest on the southwest Peninsula, in fact, the northern expedition could not be fought at all.

Even with the harvest of the southwest Peninsula, the military grain supporting all fronts also needs domestic grain. If Liu Yan is not firm, in terms of a country's normal choice, it should stop the war and enter the stage of cultivating students and raising interest.

The existing grain can hardly meet the consumption of each army. When Ji Chang heard that Xu was about to increase his troops, his first impulse was to stand up and stop him.

However, Ji Chang had to restrain himself, just because Shi Jie was really wantonly transferring materials and population. It was right to stop, but the righteousness would be lost.

"Stopping must be stopping." Liu Yan saw the reaction of civil servants such as Ji Chang, and knew that civil servants had a hard time at this time. He said, "it's easy for the general to ride the Hussars."

Ran min, general of hussars, is currently in Zhongshan County of Jizhou. His previous duty was to target Murong Yan army in Youzhou. Zhongshan County is next to Dingxiang County, which is the capital of the two counties. It is a little far away, and the middle area is deserted.

Xu Zhengcai doesn't care about food and fodder. He only needs to pay attention to the trend of the war. Logistics is the responsibility of the prime minister's office. On the premise that the Taiwei office needs it, what means the prime minister's office uses to get food is the matter of the prime minister's Office. His lips moved, and the corners of his eyes caught Ji Chang's eyes that could kill. He still didn't say anything, so he had to return to the train after saluting.

Ji Chang and Liu Yan had already passed the theme of this meeting, waiting for Xu Zheng to step back and sit down. Instead, he stood up and came to the middle with yuwat in his hand.

"King!" Ji Chang saluted and said in a loud voice: "since ancient times, the prosperity of the country lies in the military and economy, and the people are the foundation of both. There are many people in the country, the source of troops is endless, and so is production..."

Ji Chang said a lot. According to the Convention, it is a series of great principles, and then point out why he said those great principles. The core is that the population of the Han country is too small. After rigorous and serious thinking and discussion, the prime minister's office believes that it is imperative to encourage fertility. In order to make the people happy to have a population, it is also to enable the people to feed after the increase of Ding Kou, Should be rewarded