Li Le, who has always been the most scheming, knelt down. Hu Cai and Han Xian didn't think much about it, and subconsciously fell to the ground.
Just like following the trend during combat.
"Let's flat." Liu Xie shook his sleeves and turned to look at the valley behind him. "How many thousands of people are hidden in it?"
Li Le, who had just stood up, blushed and turned to look at Hu Cai and Han Xian.
Hu Cai and Han Xian were also surprised.
They didn't expect the emperor to be so direct and expose all their little thoughts.
"Not...a few thousand people," Li Le spitted and stammered.
Liu Xie looked back at Li Le, and his lips curled lightly. "Then there are still tens of thousands of people in total?"
"Seventy or eighty thousand people." Li Le said vaguely.
"Seventy or eighty thousand people." Liu Xie repeated it and turned to Pei Mao and said, "So, nearly half of the household registration lost in Hedong are here, right?"
Pei Mao disagreed, but he couldn't expose Li Le in front of the emperor.
"If there were 70,000 to 80,000 people, that's about that."
Li Le heard Pei Mao’s disdain and couldn’t help but retort. “In the past few years, there were more people, more than 100,000.”
Liu Xie immediately asked, "Has there been 20,000 or 30,000 people been missing in the past few years? Did they die in battle, starve to death, or returned to the field?"
Li Le's tone was a little slower. "Everything was. After the General Guo died in battle, Yang Feng led his troops to leave, with more than 10,000 people missing. Last year, the drought was severe, and some people were spared. There were also some people who returned to the fields, but not many, and even if they returned to the fields, they were still there.
, it is just relying on a large household and becoming a tenant slave may not be better than in the mountains. So in the past six months, someone has come back one after another."
Liu Xie thought about it and thought that Li Le’s statement was roughly reliable and the numbers could match.
"When the Baibo army was at its peak, how many people were there?"
Li Le's eyes dimmed, and he was silent for a while before he said, "In the first year of Zhongping, he followed the Daxian... when the incident was in trouble, there were the largest number of people, with a total of 240,000 to 50,000 people. Later... some died in battle,
Some disappointments gradually dropped to around 100,000 people.”
Liu Xie's heart tightened.
Two hundred and forty-five thousand people account for almost half of Hedong's household registration.
It has been reduced from 240,000 to about 100,000. Even if some of them are separated from the team, there are many people who are afraid of death in battle and starve to death.
The area of Baibo Valley is so large and there is only so much arable land, and there are only limited people who can support them.
When Yang Feng left, in addition to internal power struggles, he also had reasons why he could not be self-sufficient in food.
When he was in Yang Feng camp, he heard some mentions from the soldiers, but he didn't think about these things at that time. Now when he looked back, he felt a chill on his back.
"The mountains are hard, so let's go out to settle down." Liu Xie changed the topic. "Did you know the news about the military camp? Do you want me to explain it again?"
"I heard..." Hu Cai spoke quickly. He was halfway through his words, but Li Le glared at him and then held back.
Li Le bowed and said, "If Your Majesty can explain to me, I will be grateful."
After hearing this, Hu Cai and others nodded repeatedly to agree.
They couldn't quite understand the official documents, so they just listened to Yang Feng's retelling. If the emperor could explain it in person, it would be great. If nothing else was said, the emperor would not deny what he said in person.
Liu Xie had long guessed that these people had no trust in the prefect's mansion, but Wang Yi's attitude of thinking about the great clan, how could the prefect's mansion gain the trust of the Bai Bo army soldiers?
As for Xun Yu, who knows who he is.
Liu Xie ordered people to take a few horse stools and sit around Li Le and others.
Xun You and Pei Mao were with him, Wang Yue and Shi A stood behind him, pressing the knife ring in his hand, not daring to be careless at all.
Bai Bo and the generals were also a little nervous and did not dare to get too close to Liu Xie to avoid causing misunderstandings.
"The military settlement was initially set at 40,000 households." Liu Xie spoke slowly. "Because at least one person needs to join the army, not everyone can become military settlement households. Military settlement households are dictated by the dictator, Ding Nan,
The girl Ding was ten acres each, and the girl was seven acres each, but not five acres each…”
Liu Xie explained one by one, and stopped from time to time to ask them what questions they had.
Most of the affairs in Hedong became a junk meal. Military station was his last major idea and the key to stabilizing Hedong in the future. We must be done in a solid manner to avoid principled deviations in the future.
The purpose of implementing military camps is to have a stable source of troops.
This is the key to whether we can defend the capital and Bingzhou in the future, and it is also the basis for rebuilding finance.
Hedong's experience taught him that, under the premise that officials are basically large clans, it is not easy to attack the clan. If he is not careful, he may become a lonely man, and the imperial edict cannot be issued or even written.
If you want to have the right to speak, you must firmly grasp the military power.
The basis of military power is household registration.
He wants to win over as many household registrations as possible and become his solid foundation.
A family of five can own about thirty or forty acres of land. In addition to meeting their own food and clothing expenses, it can also provide a ration for a year for a strong man to fight.
As long as the military camp was successfully implemented, he would have 40,000 troops and food for the 40,000 people to fight for one year in a year. Even in the face of the worst situation, he still had the confidence to defend Hedong.
"Your Majesty, don't you collect money from the military camp?" asked a young soldier behind Hu Cai.
"If someone joins the army, he will not collect money." Liu Xie explained: "Your question is very well raised, so I will explain it more."
The young soldier was a little embarrassed to receive praise from the emperor, and the people around him also laughed.
"For example, a family of five has one strong man. If there is a war, the strong man will go to war. If there is no war, but there is labor service, the strong man will also go to war. In short, the strong man must be on standby at any time.
Even if there is no war or corvee service, or even during wartime, we must participate in military training."
"What should I do if this strong man died or was injured in the battle and could not fight again?" someone asked again.
"The brave man died in battle, and his family had two choices. One was to choose to withdraw from the military camp and become an ordinary household registration. This usually requires moving, and the land in the military camp is fixed and does not live in a mixed manner with the ordinary household registration. The first is to
If you keep the military camp for only five years, he can have children to be enlisted. Before his children become adults, they can do not have to go to war, but only provide corvee service."
Pei Mao coughed: "Your Majesty is kind. There is an edict that underage men and women do not do heavy work, but have special corvee services. For example, go to the military yard to work, or assist the government in cutting bamboo and wood to make simplified bamboo. In short, it is within your ability.
It won't hurt your body."
"There is something like this?" The soldiers whispered in surprise.
Liu Xie was very satisfied. Pei Mao’s attitude was positive and sensible, which was the supporting role he needed.
It is indeed his requirement to prevent minors from participating in heavy physical labor, but it is not out of kindness, but to ensure the quality of the military source.
These 40,000 soldiers were his infantry basis, and of course they could not be filled with scattered numbers.
Provide enough nutrition, plus sufficient training. In a few years, he can have a true elite.
Those veterans have no hope. They have to start with the young people.