Chapter 693: There is strength in numbers, the ancients will not deceive me
Zhou Yafu, who was full of enthusiasm, left Qingliang Hall with Huo Qubing.
I originally thought that I would stay in the mansion forever, and no one would care about me until the day of the funeral.
But now, Zhou Yafu feels full of energy, as if he is several years younger.
He wants to fight hard for the rest of his life and leave his name in the history books.
Whether you are writing an autobiography or preparing for a martial arts lecture hall, you will inevitably leave your name in the history books. Now it depends on how well you do it to determine the quality of your reputation.
After Zhou Yafu left, Li Yunze looked at his father Yan and asked, "How are the preparations for the establishment of the four Liaodong counties?"
"There are sufficient supplies, but there is still a shortage for the migrating population."
Before Li Yunze could ask, Zhu Fuyan explained, "It's not the same as it was a few years ago. People's lives are getting better and better, and fewer and fewer people are willing to leave their homes."
After Li Yunze's tax exemption, the burden on the people of the Han Dynasty was very light, especially for their main product, grain. There were Changping warehouses and grain purchase protection prices, which ensured that the harvest could fall into their own hands instead of being lost to merchants.
They cut it away with scissors.
Moreover, there have been no major construction projects in recent years. Li Yunze did not build large-scale buildings, nor did he start large-scale construction to build wonders such as the Grand Canal, the Great Wall, etc. Even if he built them, they were mainly built with indigenous people and Kunlun slaves.
In addition, there are no large-scale wars and hundreds of thousands or even millions of civilians are mobilized to die, so life is certainly getting better and better.
"There is no idle labor force anymore?" Li Yunze was slightly surprised, "Isn't that true?"
"Your Majesty, you have promised that the people of the world can open up wasteland. Everyone is busy opening fields and farming. Those who don't want to farm have also gone to work in the mines, salt fields, market towns and cities. Where is there any idle labor force?"
Li Yunze allowed farming on the premise that for every additional child in the family, an additional twenty or forty acres of land could be cultivated.
If there are multiple boys in the family, they can register at the Yamen and be allowed to cultivate twenty acres of land.
As for the girls in the family, after registering with the Yamen, they can cultivate forty acres of land.
This is very intuitive and clear, this is to protect girls.
After all, the preference for sons over daughters is very serious in this era, and the practice of drowning female infants is even more frequent.
Simply beheading people was not enough to stop it, so people were led to have more baby girls for profit.
When a girl reaches the age of three, she can go to the county government office to complete the registration procedures. After confirmation, she will receive an official document allowing the cultivation of 40 acres of land.
In order to guard against someone with a viper's heart, when my daughter was three years old, she still killed her after getting the official document. She had to go to the county government office to recheck her identity every year until she was twenty-three years old.
A woman must get married when she is twenty-three years old, otherwise she will start to collect bachelor's tax every year, and the amount will increase every year.
If anyone can hold on for twenty years, he will give up when he is forty-three years old.
As long as you get married, you can take away 20 acres of the 40 acres of land as dowry.
And once a boy or girl dies before the age of twenty-three, the fields cultivated in their name will be taken away to prevent parents from doing anything to their children to the greatest extent.
Having one more son can provide one more labor force and twenty acres of land.
If you raise one more daughter, you can get 20 years of income from 40 acres of land, and you can even keep 20 acres after your daughter gets married.
Driven by such interests, the arrival of the baby boom is natural.
Anyone with hands and feet can support themselves by their own efforts. Therefore, it is too difficult for the court to relocate the population now. It must either wait until the baby boom reaches its peak, and the population at that time will be as large as it needs to be.
How much.
You must know that before the tax exemption, the population of Han Dynasty was close to 50 million. After the tax exemption, a couple can almost raise an average of seven, eight or even more than ten children.
Even if the medical quality is poor and the children fail to grow up, on average a family with five or six children is the minimum.
In other words, in twenty years, the population of Han Dynasty will at least quadruple!
"In this business, we must seize the situation quickly." When Li Yunze whispered to himself, the master's father Yan reported another matter. "The Ministry of Punishment reported something before. Human trafficking has been rampant recently, and there are related reports in various places.
Reports appeared..."
"Um?"
Li Yunze was slightly surprised and asked puzzledly, "Why is this?"
"These traffickers are mainly children. After all, if you have more children in the family, you can have dozens of acres of more land. Secondly, they are mainly young adults. They mainly sell goulan stamps to private mines in various places.
The land of Taiwan.”
"Heh~~~"
Li Yunze laughed, the sound of his laughter was a bit harsh.
Feeling his sharp gaze, the master looked until someone was about to be unlucky.
Sure enough, he soon heard Li Yunze say, "Master Fu Yan, tell Zhidu to launch a nationwide comprehensive crackdown. No matter where they are, they will be disposed of directly. Buying and selling are the same crime. There are also those private mines and embroidered clothes."
Wei's progress is too slow, go and ask Ju Meng if you can do it, or get out if you can't!"
"If the boss behind the private mine is found, no matter who he is, he will be dealt with directly. If you dare to use ordinary people to fill the mine, you are going against heaven!"
"Here~~~"
Having been by the king's side all year round, Master Fu Yan knew very well that at this time, apart from accepting orders, he should not say anything nonsense, because it would be useless and would also anger Li Yunze.
"As for the migrant population."
Turning back to the conversation, Li Yunze thought about this matter for a while and made up his mind, "Order every family and government in the world to release slaves according to a certain proportion!"
A large proportion of the population of the Han Dynasty were slaves of various families.
Historically, at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, when the Mi family invested in Liu Bei, there were tens of thousands of dowry slaves alone, and the Mi family was just a family of merchants.
Also in the history books, when the Shu Kingdom fell, there were only hundreds of thousands of registered people, but the actual population was at least several times that, and the extra people were slaves in each household.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Li Yunze didn't take action before because he didn't have time to take care of it.
Now, on the one hand, he ordered a ban on slaves and no more slaves. On the other hand, he released slaves, forcing every household to produce slaves and move around as a migrant population.
Not much else to say, at least this time with a population of 200,000, there is absolutely no problem in migrating to the four counties of Liaodong.
When we got there, the government immediately divided up the land. Basically, everyone started with a hundred acres.
It's not that I don't want to give more, but based on the standards of intensive farming in China, even if there are large animals such as cattle and horses to cultivate the land, and there are help such as curved plows and iron farm tools, it is already the limit for one person to take care of a hundred acres of land. This is still
Under the premise of being a mature male.
Of course, there is not much arable land in Weiman Korea, and most of it was basically divided up by moving 200,000 people there.
After these people have children, if they want to cultivate fields again, they will have to drain the swamps, burn down the grass and forests, and start to cultivate new land in earnest.
In order to encourage them, almost all production and living tools are provided by the government, from large livestock such as cattle and horses to iron farm tools, from clothes and cloth to grain seeds, from building houses to distributing oil, salt, soy and vinegar, and so on.
Nowadays, big men are not in short supply of these things and are even very wealthy.
It needs to be collected by Master Fuyan and then transported to the newly established four counties of Liaodong.
As for the Huns coming over, let alone the defense line of the Great Wall Army extending directly across, the local geographical environment alone is enough for the Huns to drink.
Here in the northeast, most of the land is swampland, filled with lakes and mudlands of various sizes, as well as endless grass and woods, which is the most unsuitable terrain for cavalry maneuvers.
Only when the Yan Kingdom conquered Donghu and expanded its land for thousands of miles, the Liaoxi Corridor, which had been slightly repaired, could barely be considered passable by large groups.
If the Huns really dared to invade in large numbers, the soldiers of the Great Wall Legion would laugh to death.
As long as the retreat route of the Huns is blocked, as many as come will die!
The reason why only 200,000 people were moved there was because Li Yunze believed that whether it was Jizi Korea or Weiman Korea, their people could be regarded as Chinese people and descendants of the Yin and Shang Dynasties.
Therefore, the treatment of local people is naturally different from that of the indigenous people, and the population shortage is not as serious as imagined.
However, there was some trouble in the Sanhan land that had been reserved for Liu She in the south, because the local indigenous people there naturally had to arrange for it to be transported away, and there was a shortage of people everywhere.
Even if only men are transported, there is still a lack of a large number of young people to fill the void.
And now there is a shortage of strong men everywhere in the Han Dynasty. This is really...
"Let each family release their slaves again."
After thinking about it for a while, I finally settled on freeing the slaves.
"Each household has set the standard for slaves. If the number is not enough, their family members will be used to replace the slaves. Let's set the total at 200,000." Li Yunze took a breath. "If any family dares to keep slaves again, there will be no slaves."
Those with noble titles will first seize their titles, and those with money will be punished first and then judge their crimes."
The master’s father lowered his head deeply, “Hey~~~”
What he was thinking in his mind was to release all the slaves at home as soon as he got home. If he kept them any longer, he would cause trouble.
This emperor is a master who cannot tolerate sand in his eyes.
Li Yunze actually knew that the Han Dynasty did not lack population at this time.
But the problem is that the population after the tax exemption has not had time to grow up, at least until they are sixteen years old.
At that time, it will no longer be a matter of lack of population, but a matter of too much population, which requires living space, and war must be fought, big, early, and hard.
It happened that Wei Qing had completely matured at that time, and Huo Qubing, a young hero, was at the age when he wanted to conquer the world with great ambition.
What is this called? This is called destiny is mine!
Difficulties are only temporary, but the future is bright.
When the Han Dynasty finished farming and practicing internal energy and really started to explode, not to mention the Xiongnu, let alone the countries in the Western Regions, even Rome in the distant land would have to kneel down.
A huge population can not only provide a sufficient supply of soldiers, but also produce enough materials to support an army running rampant across the world.
As the saying goes, there is strength in numbers, and the ancients will not deceive me.