ps: Thanks to Brother Eagle Zhou, you are a good friend of my old fan, haha. Thanks also to me for telling the truth and the reward of Qi Style, as well as Yifeng’s monthly pass.
As early as when Li Chengzhong took charge of Youzhou, the officials of the original Ying Prefecture began to organize the documents and materials of the entire Lulong jurisdiction. With the help of the officials of the former Jiedu Prefecture, the new Lulong Jiedu Judge Feng Dao (led by Zhou Jingrong)
In the coming edict, the imperial censor Zhongcheng was appointed to take charge of the government affairs. It was not until late March that a general outline was made.
It's not that the officials in Yingzhou are incompetent, but that the files are too confusing. Files from different years and different matters are piled up together. Just sorting and classifying them makes people miserable.
It is neater, but in the past twenty years, Li Kuangwei, Li Kuangchou, Liu Rengong, Liu Shouguang, and Li Chengzhong have come to power one after another, and they have experienced successive battles against Hedong, Wei Bo, and Xuanwu. Today's documents are quite messy and are in urgent need of reconstruction.
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Li Chengzhong came from a later generation and relied heavily on civil servants such as Feng Dao, so he attached great importance to documents and archives. Under his strong supervision, all states within the scope of actual control submitted their old archives to the Jiedu government for review.
However, Li Cheng was frustrated by the conclusion drawn by Feng Dao. He concluded that the old archives were no longer usable, and it was necessary to conduct a new census of land and settlements in each state and process naturalization again.
Well, Li Chengzhong is speechless. If you want to handle internal affairs well, you must first understand the family background. Although Li Chengzhong is helpless, this work really must be completed seriously. Fortunately, the civil and military officials of Yuanyingzhou did it two years ago.
During a Yingzhou census, everything was in order, so under the auspices of Feng Dao, nearly a hundred inventory teams, mainly former officials from Yingzhou and supplemented by former officials from Jiedu Prefecture, were quickly dispatched.
A total of more than 200 Youzhou officials, more than 500 local officials, more than 300 officers, and more than 2,000 sergeants were mobilized for this Lulong census! All daily affairs under Lulong's rule have almost come to a halt.
They devoted all their efforts to the census. Fortunately, the spring plowing had just ended and the officials were idle, otherwise it would not have been completed.
At the same time, Li Chengzhong mobilized nearly 10,000 sergeants to the intersection with the control lines of Yiwu, Chengde, Weibo and Xuanwu armies, closely monitored the movements of each army, and made every effort to escort the general census.
The latest census results were first sent back to Yingzhou, which was within the expectations of Li Chengzhong and Feng Dao. According to the official system of the Yingzhou Governor's Office, the local officials are the most efficient, and they have deep knowledge in the past.
The census was completed very well, and the results were reported to Jiedu Mansion in mid-April.
Next is Youzhou, which is the core area controlled by Lulong and has experienced relatively few wars. The damage to government agencies and civilians was not serious, but despite this, their results took a month until the end of April.
By late May, when Hebei Province had entered its summer vacation, Cangzhou, which had suffered the most from the war, was able to complete the census.
The entire census work started from the end of March to the end of May, and took a total of two months. Compared with the era before Li Chengzhong traveled, it was actually not too slow. This was due to the sparse and relatively fixed population, as well as the ancient official power.
The Inertia of Responsibility Since ancient times, surveying and counting the population and land has always been the most important function of the ancient government.
The latest census results are gathered together. After rigorous calculations, the final results will directly affect Li Chengzhong's governance strategy. The so-called "governance strategy" actually refers to the reform of the official system and the military system.
According to the division of the Lulong Army, the original Lulong Jiedu Prefecture governed Youzhou, Tanzhou, Jizhou, Pingzhou, Yingzhou, Shunzhou, Ruzhou, Xinzhou, Wuzhou, Guizhou, Zhuozhou, Mozhou, and Yingzhou
13 prefectures and 35 counties. It also includes the original Yichangjun Cangzhou, Dezhou, and Jingzhou. It is also registered in this way in the Jiedufu files, but in fact it is not the case.
Shunzhou is located in the area of Lu County in the east of Youzhou City, which is later Shunyi. Ruzhou is in the southeast of Guizhou, which is later Yanqing. Xinzhou is in Yongxing of Guizhou, which is later Zhuolu. Wuzhou is located in Guizhou.
Zhou Wende is known as Xuanhua in later generations, Zhuozhou is Fanyang, which is later Zhuoxian County, and Jingzhou is located in the Gonggao area of Cangzhou. It has long been renamed Dizhou, but it is still called Jingzhou in the archives.
Shunzhou, Ruzhou, Zhuozhou, Xinzhou, Wuzhou, and Jingzhou are all lower states. According to the system, they are governed by Guizhou, Youzhou, and Dizhou. However, in fact, these states have long been without government offices, and all affairs are handled.
It was managed by Guizhou, Youzhou, and Dizhou, and their official positions such as governor and military envoy also became a means of ennobling officials. For example, Ji Wenyun, the former military envoy of Ruzhou, did not take up his post in Ruzhou, but his military envoy
The official position is just in name only.
For these nominal states and counties, Li Chengzhong's only thought was to ban them directly, and the name of Yichang Army as a vassal town was also ignored.
In addition, Shenzhou and Jizhou were captured by Liu Rengong from Cheng De's army later. Now only Shenzhou, Jizhou, Dezhou and Dizhou are still in his hands, which were occupied by Wei Bo and Xuanwu respectively.
The prefectures and counties now under the jurisdiction of Jiedu Prefecture include: 10 prefectures and 48 counties in Youzhou, Tanzhou, Jizhou, Pingzhou, Yingzhou, Guizhou, Mozhou, Yingzhou, Shenzhou and Cangzhou.
The statistics came as a surprise to Li Chengzhong. He did not expect that there could be so many people in the prefectures and counties under his jurisdiction. The reason why he was surprised was actually that his request was for a "population and land census" rather than a "census of land and land."
There is a huge difference between "population and land census". It is precisely because of this difference that the states under its jurisdiction spent a full two months.
Population and Dingkou are two concepts. The so-called Dingkou, that is, male and female population, refers specifically to adult men and women, that is, those who pay taxes and serve in the military. According to the regulations of Lulong Jiedu Prefecture, Dingkou refers to those who reach the age of fifteen.
Men and women between the age of sixty. According to convention, the census only covers this type of people.
Li Chengzhong didn't understand this difference before. During the census in Dingkou, Yingzhou last year, the number was 470,000. But in this census, the number was 580,000, of which 110,000 were 100,000.
The population is under five years old and over sixty years old. Of course, there are very few people over sixty years old, and the total is less than 10,000. In this era, it is really not easy to live over sixty.
Li Chengzhong was very interested in the sudden increase in population. He wanted to see how many people he controlled.
Youzhou was originally the largest state in Lulong, but now it has been surpassed by Yingzhou, which has migrated a large number of people, and its economy has long been left behind. Despite this, Youzhou's population has reached 400,000, including 15 years old
The number of children between the age of sixty and sixty is 320,000.
Next is Pingzhou, which ranks third, with a total population of just over 280,000. Although Pingzhou is small, it is close to Yingzhou. In the past two years, many people have fled here to escape the disasters of war, especially Cangzhou people. Almost half of them have come to this place.
He fled north to Pingzhou.
There are more than 190,000 people in Jizhou, more than 170,000 people in Guizhou, more than 130,000 people in Tanzhou, nearly 110,000 people in Cangzhou, nearly 90,000 people in Mozhou, more than 70,000 people in Yingzhou, and more than 60,000 people in Shenzhou.
The above total number of people is 2.1 million, of which 1.67 million are between the ages of 15 and 60, 400,000 are under the age of 15, and 30,000 are over the age of 60.
"Two million and one million people is really a lot... Well, actually it's still a small number..." Li Chengzhong thought it was quite a lot at first, but compared to three, the two thousand people who created the Bailangshan era four years ago were simply incomparable.
, but then he thought about the concept of the capital's population of more than 20 million in later generations, and suddenly felt that it was too small.
Feng Dao nodded: "It's indeed a lot less." His concept in his mind was different from Li Chengzhong's. Although he also felt it was less, he compared it with the number of Dingkou in the Xuanzong era in the file, so he said: "Let's take a good rest.
We will strive to return to the level of three million people within twenty years."
"Ke Dao, how many people do you think we have in the Tang Dynasty now?" Li Chengzhong began to think about this historical issue.
Feng Dao pondered for a moment and then hesitated: "Lulong is an important town in the world. If we count people, it is 2.1 million. According to the proportion of Hebei Province during the reign of Emperor Xuanzong, it accounts for about 60%. If so, Hebei Province today may have
Three and a half million people; during the Dazhong period, Dingkou, Hebei Province, controlled one out of ten people in the world, and now the Tang Dynasty has 35 million people..." After saying that, Feng Dao shook his head again: "These are all
This is the ratio fifty years ago. Who can say for sure now? The war is so severe that it is immeasurable..."
Li Chengzhong's thoughts flew to later generations again. He vaguely remembered that when he was in high school in later generations, his history teacher once casually said when talking about the history of the Five Dynasties that at the beginning of the founding of the Song Dynasty, the population was less than 10 million, and he couldn't help but feel sad. Of course,
This number is only the population within the territory ruled by the Song Dynasty, and does not include the population of Daliao who occupied the land of Youyan. Perhaps Youyan could have had five million people at that time. In other words, if Feng Dao’s speculation is not too outrageous, what will happen next
In the next half century, China will lose 20 million people due to continued war.
It should be noted that this number is "reduction", not "death"!
Li Cheng's mind felt a little heavy for a moment, and then he put these negative emotions behind him and began to calculate again. There are 1.67 million people between the ages of fifteen and sixty, so who can be recruited to become
How many soldiers can we have? If we take one out of thirty, that would be 55,600 people. But is this practical?
Li Chengzhong decided to ask Jiedu Mansion to re-calculate and report only the number of Dingkou between the ages of fifteen and fifty. He really couldn't imagine what it would be like for an old man in his fifties to go into battle with a gun.
Jiedu Mansion was busy again. Three days later, new figures were reported to Li Chengzhong. The number of children aged 15 to 50 in the states under Lulong's jurisdiction was 1.56 million, only 110,000 less than the original number.
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Seeing this number, Li Chengzhong couldn't help but sigh again, it's not easy to live past fifty!
The current figures are easier to calculate. If the recruitment ratio is 30 to 1 in peacetime, the Lulong Army can form a standing army of 52,000 people; if the recruitment ratio is 20 to 1 in wartime, the number of troops will be 78,000.
Recruiting at a ratio of one out of ten during a state of emergency, the Lulong Army could reach 155,000 people!
In extreme cases, this number can be doubled! Li Chengzhong remembered that his high school history teacher once talked about the Qin Army's formation size during the Warring States Period: 600,000 people. That was an astonishing ratio of almost five to one. This number was also
At the same time, it shows that Qin's national mobilization and organizational capabilities are the strongest in the entire history of China, even catching up with the later New China!
With this number, Li Chengzhong began to build a new Lulong military and political system. (To be continued...