After the Taishan Army's Northern Expedition was successful, the whole of Hebei seemed to have come to a standstill.
Both the many Han army guards and the Hebei Yellow Turbans maintained their restraint and took no other action.
But everyone knows that this is temporary, the calm before the storm.
When the Taishan Army showed its unrivaled strength, all the forces in Hebei had to think about their own fate.
Therefore, they either sought multiple gates or attacked and defended alliances, all trying to block the Taishan Army's front.
Because of this, in order to expand their own strength, various places began to truly fish from the lake. No longer caring about their dignity as herdsmen officials, they requisitioned the last grain of millet in the head of Guizhou and went to the countryside to kidnap people as soldiers.
The Taishan Army naturally knew what these county guards were doing, so the first batch of return team officials such as Zhao Yun had quietly returned to their hometowns, preparing to open up forces behind enemy lines amid this boiling human resentment.
Zhang Chong personally watched Zhao Yun and others leave Handan. Looking at these young faces, Zhang Chong felt both proud and worried.
This journey is naturally full of ups and downs, but isn’t that what a good man should do?
After sending away a group of officials from the returning team, Zhang Chong began to devote more energy to dealing with internal affairs.
In Zhang Chong's view, the so-called internal affairs should not be the intrigues of power. Of course, this is indeed the case in the Han Dynasty. Don't you see, all they are busy with all day long is fighting between factions and seeking a share for their family.
Benefits, how many people have discussed the world's people's livelihood?
Since internal affairs should be effectively related to people's livelihood, we actually start from productivity and production relations. For now, it is more appropriate to develop production relations.
It may exceed what some people realize, but it is easier to learn productivity than to reform production relations. For example, when Zhang Chong was in the Yimeng area of Shandong Province, he invented the curved shaft plow, waterwheel and other things, which had already spread to the surrounding Xuzhou area.
.Of course these things are controlled by powerful forces.
But which of the Taishan Army’s current institutions and systems can other forces dare to learn from?
Therefore, in the past, all countries knew the power of Qin's laws and implemented various reforms, but which one could truly achieve the success of Qin's reforms?
So Zhang Chong understood this truth a long time ago.
Utensils are very important, but more important than the utensils are more advanced systems.
Therefore, Zhang Chong would rather spend more time and energy on polishing the institutional machine of the Taishan Army. This is the kingly way to win the world.
Hebei is now in a stage where everything needs to be done. Although this result is mostly the responsibility of the Yellow Turban Army and the Han Army, since the Taishan Army has become its master, it naturally has to bear the responsibility for its governance.
Previously, Zhang Chong focused his energy on reforming the military system, and most of the current local affairs only required the division of land and ensuring daily production.
But with the outbreak of the Xin Zhao incident, Zhang Chong realized that it was urgent to govern under the rule of law.
Today's Taishan Army is undergoing a huge change. The past model of fighting around the world has switched to a model of sitting on one side. This is both an opportunity and a challenge.
If Zhang Chong and others cannot build the central and southern Hebei region well, how can they convince others of the superiority of their Taishan Army?
If in the past, the Taishan Army was just an opposition party, only shouting slogans to win the hearts and minds of the people, then now the Taishan Army has become the ruling party like the Han Dynasty, and now they have to compete with each other for their real governance level.
So Zhang Chong called over a series of civil affairs officials such as Cai Yong and Zhuge Gui.
Let’s discuss the current governance points together.
Civil affairs officials such as Zhuge Gui, who were on the front line, advised Zhang Chong that the urgent need for governance at the moment was to stabilize the people and establish official records.
After the Northern Expedition, the Taishan Army successively captured Xiangguo, the area around Julu, and Kuodi County. However, the Taishan Army has no idea how many household registrations and settlements there are in this area.
Not to mention that the household register of the Han Dynasty has not been updated for many years. Even if it is updated, the population hidden by local powerful people will not be recorded.
Therefore, the Taishan Army had to create records to stabilize the people and grasp the true situation of the population under its rule.
The prerequisite for establishing an official register is to calm the people, and to achieve peace of mind, it is necessary to preach the truth to the people under the rule.
The Taishan Army is the most reasonable, and has a systematic propaganda team under its command. During the Taishan Army's several major food distribution operations, the propaganda team was on the sidelines to preach the Taishan Army's policy, which was to suppress violence and punish crimes.
The people joined in the resistance.
What now? The members of these propaganda teams will go deep into the Taihang Mountains and Dalu Ze to recruit the people who have fled to these places to return to their hometowns and reclaim the land.
In short, the purpose is to make the people under the rule realize the policies and propositions of the Taishan Army and restore their confidence in production.
But Zhang Chong didn't think that he could convince the refugees in the Taihang Mountains and mainland China just by reasoning.
This is not to say that the policies of the Taishan Army are unattractive to these people, but that these people simply cannot make their own decisions.
Anyone who lives in exile in mountains and rivers must form a group to protect themselves in order to survive, and this group must have a leader.
Most of these people will not make a fortune. After all, they would rather be a chicken head than a phoenix tail. They are already vested interests. How can they give up their status as a master just because of a few acres of thin farmland?
Therefore, in the Taihang Mountain area in the north of Zhao State and the Dalu Ze area in the middle of Julu, Zhang Chong had already dispatched two battalions each and issued military orders to suppress bandits.
In fact, even if Zhuge Gui and others had not talked about calming the people and creating records, Zhang Chong would have suppressed the bandits.
In April when he was in charge of Handan, he heard about more than a dozen incidents of thieves in the territory.
For example, a certain generation of thieves, a leader, organized hundreds of gangs and attacked the grass market in Ren County, Julu County. There was also Jiang Bo, the leader of thieves in the West Mountains, who robbed Shanxialishe, set fire to warehouses, and brought disaster to the mountainous areas in the northern part of Zhao State.
In short, these bandits have become the focus of the Taishan Army's current military work. Without governance, the place cannot be stabilized. Now that the world is in chaos, these bandits can easily instigate and coerce large numbers of people, elevating ordinary disputes to the level of armed fighting and rebellion.
Because these bandits know that chaos is the only way for them to survive.
Zhang Chong would definitely strike hard at these rebellious people. These people may have been oppressed and poor back then, but now they have long since deteriorated.
If they still had the slightest thought of living a peaceful life, Zhang Chong would give them a way out, give them fields, and let them get out of the mountains and live a peaceful life again.
But will they?
Zhang Chong, who had already made arrangements for these, did not say much to Cai Yong and Zhuge Gui. The topic now is still discussing governance. Regarding the suppression of bandits, he will discuss it with the military officials.
After all, suppressing bandits is not a trivial matter. One bad person can suppress more and more bandits.
After Zhuge Gui finished talking about publicity, he began to talk about the specific implementation of the list to appease the people.
This is mainly done through announcements. In fact, the Taishan Army has always done this. Every time it conquers a place, it will first issue an announcement to calm the people and reveal the thoroughfares to calm people's hearts.
These notices not only affirmed the military discipline of the Taishan Army, but also promoted the policies of the Taishan Army, and called on the people to join the army.
In addition, the Taishan Army also pays attention to attracting role models. Anyone who has made outstanding contributions to stabilizing the local area will be given an Anmin flag by the Taishan Army as an encouragement and as a model.
In short, there is not much difference between the Taishan Army and the Han Dynasty in terms of reassuring the people. They are both limited by the conditions of the times.
Finally, Zhuge Gui talked about the most important part, which was compiling household registers.
Take Zhuge Gui as an example. In front of many civil officials, he said to the public:
“Household registration is the most important matter in civil affairs and has been of great importance throughout the ages.”
As soon as these words came out, everyone present, including Zhang Chong, had no objection to this sentence. Because only by mastering the household registration can we make overall arrangements for the manpower under the rule, so the country uses it to establish its code and the family uses it to establish its system.
Zhuge Gui was a high-ranking official in the Han Dynasty, so he first discussed the Han Dynasty's system of household registration management.
The Han Dynasty system followed the Qin system, with Lishe as the focus of the household registration work. It divided the world's population into four categories, one is civilian registration, the other is official registration, the third is clan registration, and the fourth is seven-keke relegation, etc.
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According to different assets, the nationality is subdivided into upper household, middle household and lower household.
Then, those who were officials with more than 300 shi were assigned official status, and those who were members of the royal family were assigned clan status. As for the so-called seven subjects who were relegated, they were registered as criminals.
That is, those criminal officials, exiles, relatives, Jia people, those who were Jia people, whose parents were Jia people, and whose grandparents were Jia people, all fell into the seven categories of crimes and were relegated.
These criminals who were relegated to the Seven Branches were all compulsorily recruited, and once they joined the army, they were slaves and enjoyed the lowest treatment. Every time they attacked a city, they had to risk their lives and fill trenches with soil.
The fate of filling gullies.
So the banishment here means banishment.
When talking about the banishment of Qi Ke, Zhuge Gui paused for a moment and looked at Zhang Chong's reaction. He knew that with Zhang Chong's moral level, he would never allow the existence of guilty people.
Sure enough, when talking about the Qi Ke relegation, Zhang Chong's expression was quite strange.
The people of the Qin and Han Dynasties were really cruel to merchants. Anyone who had done business within three generations would be punished as a criminal. But Zhang Chong also knew that this was fine at the beginning of the dynasty, but now, who is a powerful person?
If your family doesn't run a business, you'll be charged with a crime even if you don't see it.
But this kind of systematic discrimination against businessmen is really cruel.
Zhang Chong was silent and continued to listen to Zhuge Gui's talk about household registration.
Soon Zhuge Gui talked about a part that Zhang Chong was familiar with, which was the compilation of household registers in Lishe.
Probably more than five years ago, what changed Zhang Chong's fate was the water transport distribution. At that time, Tingzhang Sun gave him a talisman with his identity information, and the same identity information not only had a set of information in Lishe
, there is also a set in the county.
This was the Qin and Han household registration management that Zhang Chong first came into contact with.
Household registration management like this is the internal household registration management during the Qin and Han Dynasties.
Each household will be registered separately, including the name of the county, the name of the village, the identity of the head of the household, the title and name. Then the name of the wife of the head of the household will be registered in the next column. If there are several wives, the others will be concubines or concubines.
If there is no separation of households, the name of the wife of the brother of the head of the household is usually also registered. Then the names of sons, daughters, nephews, and nieces will all be registered in the same household register.
Generally, the people who register this information are Li Dian and Wu Lao of their respective communities. They copy and register it. Anyone who dares to commit fraud during this process will be severely punished.
Then these household registration books will be made in triplicate. The original one is hidden in the countryside, the copy is sent to the county government, and the last one is sent to Kyoto, which manages the household registration all over the country.
In addition to these household registrations, there are also various land registrations, which are all cleared by the local government and sent to the central government.
It was precisely with the help of these books and records that the Han Dynasty could manage the world uniformly.
But here, it's over.
Zhuge Gui said that today's book records are at least forty years ago and can no longer reflect the real situation of the world's population.
One of the important reasons is that with the increasing distribution and corvee labor, more and more people who have been registered as households have begun to flee their registration.
Although these people have become a stateless population and can only wander and flee, and cannot receive their own land, they no longer have to pay their taxes.
But most Dingkou are not willing to live in exile in the lake, and they don't have the ability, so they can only find someone to shelter them.
Naturally, those who can compete with the government are the powerful people in various places.
Therefore, after the Han Dynasty suppressed the Qiang Dynasty for more than a hundred years, the world's population was reduced by more than half. It is not that everyone died, but that they fled to the powerful.
It is also by absorbing these huge human resources that the powerful people become stronger and stronger, and they are increasingly able to compete with the government.
In addition, there is a huge problem, which is that the false elements of household registration are becoming more and more obvious.
This is actually a false response. Because the number of household registrations is an important content that must be reported every year when the county planners go to Luo. This is an important assessment of the work of each county guard.
But now that all the household registrations have been divided up by powerful people, what should they do? If they can't get rid of the powerful people, they can only fake registrations and get them.
Zhuge Gui had been working on the front line for more than 20 years, and he knew all these things. So he frankly told Zhang Chong that the records of Wei, Zhao, and even Julu were all fake.
At this point, Zhang Chong interrupted Zhuge Gui and expressed his doubts:
"As you said, since this book is no longer valid, how can the Han Dynasty continue to maintain the world in these decades, and how can it still be able to mobilize soldiers to quell the Yellow Turban rebellion?"
Zhuge Gui was very serious and said something seriously that Zhang Chong had never realized:
"Qu Shuai, this is not a place where people can escape. As long as there are people on the ground, there will be various ways to tax them. Even though this method is very crude, it is already effective."
Zhang Chong understood that the original household registration management was an efficient management. But after the Han Dynasty began to deteriorate, they directly gave up this efficiency and directly used excessive levies and extortionate taxes to collect taxes extensively.
No wonder the world has fallen into an endless cycle.
Finally, Zhuge Gui talked about the household registration system with the characteristics of the Taishan Army that he and a group of pro-people officials discussed.
In general, Zhuge Gui absorbed most of the Han Dynasty's systems and then integrated them into the Taishan Army's system.
First of all, Zhuge Gui also divided the world's household registration into four categories, but it was not like the Han Dynasty, but four categories: military, workers, civilians, and officials.
These four categories are also the four most important groups in the Taishan Army today, and Zhuge Gui decided to classify and create a list for them.
Later, the grass-roots organizations of the Taishan Army were mainly based on sub-field farms or farms directly managed by the Taishan Army. Each village and community had its own sub-field chief and field guard chief, which meant that there were already people who carried out registration.
Manpower is available.
So the work now is divided into two parts.
In the old districts of Wei State, household registration templates can be distributed to various communities, and local registration and registration can be done. In the new districts of northern Zhao State and southern Julu, the land is divided first, and corresponding grassroots officials are allocated and promoted, and then registered and registered.
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Zhang Chong nodded vigorously during this process, and he realized more and more that it was really necessary to keep Zhuge Gui around that day.
Zhang Chong is not very familiar with the art of governing the people. With the help of such a decent official, he can get twice the result with half the effort.
However, Zhang Chong saw that Zhuge Gui stopped talking after speaking these words.
Zhang Chong immediately realized that what this person was going to say might be very sensitive.
Therefore, Zhang Chong ordered the chef to prepare lunch and left everyone to eat. He himself took Zhuge Gui to a clean room aside and held a small meeting for the two of them.
Zhang Chong still knows how to hold a small meeting before the conference.