For some dynasties that were unable to expand outward, overcrowding was a nuisance and a burden that detonated domestic turmoil.
After all, for such a dynasty, the land is so big, and the land is concentrated in the hands of a few people after repeated annexations, and most people can't live without land The Central Plains Dynasty was destroyed by foreign enemies not many times, even if it was destroyed by foreign races several times, except for the Song Dynasty, most of the dynasties were destroyed simply because of their internal self-collapse to let the foreign races take advantage.
The most exaggerated one is the "I Qing Dynasty" of wild boar skin, which wiped out the Ming Dynasty with a population of 100 million people with hundreds of thousands of people, and ruled the absolute majority with an absolute minority.
The Han State under the rule of Liu Yan was an offensive country, and the population could only be more than less, to put it bluntly, the population would never be a burden on the country, on the contrary, it would be necessary to have enough people to fill it after opening up the territory, otherwise it would not be able to defend it for long if it lay down a vast territory without its own people to live in peace.
Throughout the long history of China, many offensive dynasties continued to expand outward, and they all faced a common problem, that is, their people were unwilling to move to the past after conquering their territory.
The former Qin and Han empires, after opening up new territories, relocated their people to the newly occupied territories by coercive measures, also in the Hetao area.
Of course, the role of the resettlement filling is there, but the forced immigration has made the people complain a lot, and then because of some improper handling, the loss rate of people on the other side of the loop is too alarming, and even the phenomenon of being integrated by the Hulu.
The Qin Empire migrated south of Yinshan, and because there were still herding skills at that time, the Qin people who immigrated in the past had actually gained a firm foothold, but it was the internal strife in the empire that led to the demise of Qin.
The living environment of this group of Qin people in the Hetao was very bad, not to mention the continuous attack of Hulu, the Han Empire was also hostile, their situation was changed during the reign of Liu Che in the Western Han Dynasty, and Wei Qing's attack on the Hetao had their help.
The Han Empire ruled the Hetao area for a long time, but due to the relationship of the central policy, in fact, at a certain stage, the Han people in the Hetao had long been Hu, and after the Han Empire gave the Hetao to the Southern Xiongnu as a habitat, those Huhua Han people were actually accepted by the various tribes of the Huns.
By the end of the rule of the Sima family in the Central Plains by the Huns Liu Yuan, it is true that Liu Yuan had the blood of the descendants of the Han royal family, and the origin was that the Han Empire had married the Xiongnu many times, and quite a few Xiongnu Shan Yu's Yan clan were indeed Han princesses, but those princesses were only clan daughters or palace maids.
Another reason why he named the country he founded was that many of the Xiongnu did indeed have Han blood.
In the many Hu ethnic groups around the Central Plains, most of them actually have Han blood in their veins.
The reason for this phenomenon is quite simple, the Han family lost the border land, the border people were forced to merge with the Hu people, or the Han women were robbed and gave birth to offspring.
If you really pursue it, not only do most of the Xiongnu people have Han blood, but most of the Xianbei people actually have Han blood.
This theory was the inducement of Xianbei's independent sinicization in the Northern Wei Dynasty, but it was not only Xianbei who learned Han culture and lost his brain.
Integrating the Hu people is also what Liu Yan wants, the difference is that he wants to take the initiative to integrate the Hu people, not the Hu people.
Originally, he also wanted to melt the Hu people, so that the Hu people would identify with the culture of the Han people and have Han blood, and use this group of people to enrich the border land.
Liu Yan's idea is that he encountered problems encountered in all dynasties, and the people of the Han family had a deep rejection of the 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 reluctant to move, how can it still hope to move to the new occupation zone In the past, the Han State was also short of people, and the recovery of one state and county after another was not only to regain the lost territory, but also to compete for population Nowadays, the northern part of the old land of the Han family is left with Youzhou, Liangzhou, Bingzhou, and Liaodong, which have not been recovered, and if they are all recaptured, it is estimated that they will be able to increase the number of Han Miao descendants by about 3 million, but it will only increase the total population of the huge Han Kingdom to about 180,000.
Based on the mouth of four households, the population of 18 million is 4.5 million households.
In fact, there are seven or eight people in a household, and even hundreds of people in a household, and similar phenomena are very common, taking the current 13 million registered in the Han Kingdom as an example, in fact, it is about 1.5 million households.
A family often has several or even more than a dozen "rooms", and one "room" is dozens of people, not counting the domestic servants under the name, but this family is a "household" in the official records.
In view of the fact that it is impossible to accurately calculate the population of the whole country by using "households", the Han State adopted the head count, not the "households" to calculate, and many dynasties that calculated by "households" can only rely on guessing how many people in their own country are.
The Han State was very strict in the population register, and if a living person was recorded, a new round of verification was carried out by the local government every quarter.
What is verified is how many children have died in infancy, how many have died in the elderly, and how many have died in accidents.
The amount of such a project is very huge, and it would not have been possible at all without a large number of grassroots personnel who had retired from the military to the localities.
The importance of knowing how many people a country has is very high, and the fact that there is no poll tax in the Han State is naturally not just for the purpose of collecting taxes, but about more important strategic significance, such as how many suitable soldiers are in the country's population.
The population of 13 million is the official statistics of the Han State at present, and there must be a missing population, and the number may be quite large, mainly because too many people hid in the mountains and forests during the war.
For the Han Kingdom, the risk of the hidden population of the wealthy is very high, 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 would be a policy to attract people who had taken refuge in the mountains and forests.
That policy is the government-led equalization system, that is, the release of 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 put forward relevant suggestions, but Liu Yan himself is hesitant, and the Taiwei Office has delayed it on the grounds that the country is currently in a state of war.
"The Han is at war all the time."
Ji Chang's purpose has achieved one of them, and he said while the iron is hot: "When the time is extraordinary, do extraordinary measures." ” The worries of the Tai Lieutenant Department are very realistic, because the soldiers of the military can only work hard to obtain land rewards, and the implementation of the old policy of dividing land will make the soldiers lose their enthusiasm for combat.
Because it is an "old practice" that has existed for a long time, the military cannot, of course, be able to oppose it with confidence, so it can only delay, or even want to postpone it indefinitely.
Liu Yan was extremely in favor of giving birth to a child and getting land rewards, and even thought about what area of land to give away.
According to his idea, the appendage of the incentive policy is very important, for example, the land to be rewarded is on the border land, and then the original land of the family can be replaced, and the replacement is increased on the basis of the original holding.
The Han State was destined to be an offensive and pioneering country, and the population must not be mostly concentrated in the Central Plains as in the previous dynasties, and should be more reasonably distributed.
Considering that it is difficult to leave the hometown is a deep-rooted thought, it is simply impossible to do it with mild means, and complete coercion will follow the mistakes of the former Han Empire, then it can only be half tempting and half coercing.
"Prime Minister," Liu Yan said earnestly: "It's not that the widow is stingy and doesn't want to divide the land among the people, but he has to do this." ” Ji Chang was stunned.
It is true that Liu Yan is not stingy, but once the strategy of equalizing fields similar to that in the early Han Dynasty is adopted, after everyone has land, the people will be more reluctant to move outward.
The most important thing for Liu Yan is that acquiring land with military merits will continue to tempt him to have the courage to maintain a strong enough enterprising spirit, which is in line with his goal of at least becoming the owner of the world's island.
At present, about sixty percent of the landless people in the Han State are leased from the state for farming, and even so, there is still a large amount of wasteland in the country, and slaves can only be used to open up wasteland and turn it into fertile land.
I have to tell the truth, most of the slaves in the Han Kingdom came from prisoners of war, and the Hu people accounted for the vast majority, and the Hu people did not know how to farm at all, and the labor efficiency was amazingly low.
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There was no way to use slaves for large-scale farming, and the Prime Minister's Mansion had been forced to pick out areas for planning pastures, and the main purpose was to train war horses, and cattle and sheep herding could only be said to be incidental.
Didn't the Han army go south and destroy the small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty After the surrender of the Jin army, in addition to the non-commissioned officers of the navy army in the integration plan, the army in the Jin army became the largest source of labor for the state-owned farms, and the other is that those who insist on resisting the big clans, Haoqiang, and families are also one of the labor forces of the state-owned farms.
In dealing with the rebellious clans, powerful families, and families, the Han State adopted only the punishment of the first evil, and the rest were reduced to slaves.
The immediate family members of the rebels were slaves for three generations, coerced for one life, and then as commoners of the state, and were not allowed to be officials for six generations.
The harsh measures against those who rebelled against the rule of the Han State were mainly used to deter, and the follow-up effect was very useful, at least Huan Wen, who presided over the war in the south, reported it.
Six days after Ji Chang deliberately looked for Liu Yan, another great court meeting was held as scheduled.
"The northern expedition sequence has been approached under the city of Jinyang.
Fu Hong's troops on the north road, they fled to the north after plundering, and Li Tan sent the second cavalry corps to follow and pursue.
Xu Zheng, the captain, spoke in a loud voice: "Your Majesty, there is another news that Shi Hu has given up on Dingxiang. ” There are many officials who participate in the Great Dynasty Meeting, and many important events are reported at the Great Dynasty Meeting, so those high-ranking nobles who are in the center who do not have official positions must also participate.
It's just that in the Han Kingdom in the pioneering stage, there were no idlers in the aristocracy, all of them had official positions.
Shi Qi Zhao's national policy was already known by the Han State, that is, Shi Hu spoke publicly, and he didn't care about the gains and losses of the territory.
As for Shi Hu's possible continued escape, the Han side has been fully mentally prepared.
They knew that after Shi Hu rebuilt the capital in Dingxiang, he requisitioned manpower and began to build the palace again, but they didn't expect Shi Hu to really say that he was going to leave again.
Shi Hu was about to flee again, and the Han side had a more complicated idea, on the one hand, they were happy that they might not have to make much effort to recover the old land, and on the other hand, they were annoyed that they had not eliminated enough living force in Shi Hu.
In fact, Liu Yan felt that he didn't understand Shi Hu, that was a person who had ruled the Central Plains, and the Central Plains said that he would give up, since he didn't plan to stick to Dingxiang, why did he build a palace "The flow of people and convoys to the north of Shijiao has been continuous for thousands of miles, and the exchanges have never been interrupted."
Xu Zheng held the jade wat in his hand and shook as he spoke, and his tone was full of indignation: "Those materials are the people's fat and people's ointment, and the slaves who were driven away are the people of the Han Dynasty."
The ministers asked for a proposal to increase the army going north to participate in the war, attack Dingxiang as soon as possible, and enter Heshuo as soon as possible."
At that moment, Ji Chang and the other civil officials belonging to the Prime Minister's Mansion all frowned.
The Han State currently has too many troops on various fronts, which is a great test of grain support, and if there is no harvest on the southwest peninsula, in fact, this Northern Expedition will not be able to fight at all.
Even if there is a harvest in the southwest peninsula, the military rations to support all fronts will also need domestic rations, if it were not for Liu Yan's resolute attitude, in terms of a country's normal choice, it would be to stop the war and enter the stage of cultivation and recuperation.
The existing food is almost unable to cope with the consumption of the various armies, and Ji Chang's first impulse when he heard that Xu Zheng was about to increase the number of troops participating in the battle was to stand up and stop it.
However, Ji Chang had to press it down, just because Shi Qian was really transferring materials and people on a large scale, and it was right to stop it, but the righteousness would be lost.
"Blocking must be stopped."
Liu Yan saw the reaction of Ji Chang and other civil officials, and knew that the civil officials could not speak out at this time.
He said: "The hussar general acts cheaply. ” Hussar general Ran Min is currently in Zhongshan County in Jizhou, and his previous duty was to target Murong Yan's army in Youzhou.
Zhongshan County is next door to Dingxiang County, that is, the capitals of the two counties are really far away, and the middle zone is deserted.
Xu Zhengcai doesn't care about grain or anything, he only needs to pay attention to the trend of the war, logistics is the responsibility of the Prime Minister's Office, and under the premise that the Taiwei Office needs it, what means the Prime Minister's Mansion uses to get food is the business of the Prime Minister's Office.
His lips moved, and the corner of his eye caught Ji Chang's murderous gaze, but he still didn't say anything, so he could only salute and return to the train.
Ji Chang and Liu Yan had already communicated the theme of this great court meeting, waiting for Xu Zheng to retreat and sit down, so that he stood up and came to the middle with a jade wat in his hand.
"Your Majesty" 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 foundation of both.
The people of the country are numerous, the army is endless, and so is the production."
Ji Chang said a lot, according to the convention is a series of big truths, and then point out why those big truths are said, the core is that the population of the Han Kingdom is too small, the Prime Minister's Mansion after rigorous and serious thinking and discussion, it is imperative to encourage childbirth, in order to make the people happy to give birth to the population, but also to let the people be able to feed after the increase in Dingkou, should be rewarded: