"This is Shangjing City! It was once the capital of the Liao Kingdom, but now it also belongs to us Han people!" Wu Dong and others arrived at Shangjing City in the morning. At this moment, he looked at the city wall in front of him and said secretly. [ ~]
"Grand Governor, in addition to grasslands, there are countless farmlands around Shangjing. It can be seen that the Khitan people once planted crops here." Li Gang looked around and said.
"This is natural! The Khitan people have been learning from us Han people for more than 200 years. They are very similar to us Han people in many places! Except for some Khitan nomadic tribes in the west, in other places, the Khitan people also grow crops like the Han people.
!This is the capital of the Khitan people, and it is normal to have farmland around it." Wu Dong said.
"Grand Governor, the farmland here has been abandoned. If it remains abandoned for too long, this place may become a grassland again. We cannot let this place continue to be abandoned." Li Gang said again.
Wu Dong nodded, he agreed with this point of view.
This is where Inner Mongolia used to be. By the Ming and Qing Dynasties, it had long been abandoned. In modern times, it was pure grassland. The names of the Liao Kingdom such as Shangjing and Zhongjing have disappeared in modern times, and not even the ruins remain. As for farmland
It is even more impossible to stay. The farming civilization that has developed here has completely disappeared and has become primitive and backward. Since Wu Dong has come to this era, he will naturally not let such a thing happen.
"Let's go to the capital first." Wu Dong said with a smile.
They walked into Shangjing City, with Yue Fei, Yang Xiong, Yang Zhi and others following behind them.
Shangjing City has been cleaned up these days, and there is no longer a strong smell of blood in the city. Pedestrians can already be seen on the street, but these pedestrians dodge when they see Liangshan's army entering here. The people of Shangjing City are not interested in the army.
Very scared, they experienced it several times
During the war, every time the army entered the city, they almost suffered disaster. Fortunately, this time after Liangshan broke through the capital, the people in the capital were not harassed in any way, and Liangshan's army even gave them their own rations.
This greatly increased their favorable impression of the Liangshan army.(
·~ )However, even if they have a good impression, their fear of the military is still deep-rooted.
"Have you calculated the number of people in Beijing?" Wu Dong turned to Yue Fei and said.
Yue Fei and others have been here for ten days, and they should count the population here.
"Grand Governor, there are 310,000." Yue Fei said.
"Shangjing City has gone through countless wars, but it still has such a large population. It's not easy!" Wu Dong nodded.
"Great Governor, there are mainly women in Shangjing City, and there are very few men! In the past, the Khitans and Jurchens fought, and countless men became soldiers and died on the battlefield! Later, Shangjing City was captured, and there were
Countless men were killed for protecting the city. Later, the Jurchens also selected men to become soldiers, and many of these soldiers died in battle! According to our statistics, the number of men in the capital is now less than 30,000, and
Most of them are old and weak!" Yue Fei said.
"The whole north is like this now." Wu Dong said.
Now in the entire north, all the cities have more boys and girls! Liaodong is slightly better, with a male to female ratio of one to five. In places ruled by Jurchens, the male to female ratio is around one to ten. There is an urgent need for men here.
"Grand Governor, we must encourage polygamy! We must also encourage the widows of deceased husbands to marry others so as to increase the population here in the future!" Li Gang suddenly said.
"A widow is marrying?" Wu Dong was stunned, and suddenly laughed: "Don't Confucianism say that we should have three obediences and four virtues? You are also a familiar student of the saints, how can you encourage a widow to marry?"
"At this time and that time, after all, the country cannot be governed according to the instructions of the saints. In the past dynasties, after wars, the government would encourage widows to marry. This is a good thing that benefits the country and the people." Li Gang was silent for a while before speaking.
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Wu Dong laughed loudly, but Li Gang felt a little ashamed. He knew that what he said was somewhat contradictory to Confucianism, but he knew that only by encouraging widows to marry and polygamy would truly be good for the people and the country, and everything else should be done.
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"Many of those widows still have children. If there are no men in the family, their lives will be extremely difficult, and they may even starve to death. In the face of human life, everything else must be put aside. Mr. Li's idea, I
I agree, and there are other benefits to doing so." Yang Zhi suddenly said.
"Oh? Apart from increasing the population and protecting women, what other benefits are there?" Wu Dong said.
"Grand Governor, I have an idea. We can encourage the soldiers to marry and have children here! Although there are Han people in the north, there are also a very large number of Khitans, Bohai people, and Xi people. Now there are only one female left in each place.
Most of them are foreigners! Our soldiers are here
If they marry their wives and have children here, all the children they will give birth to in the future will be us Han people, which will be of great benefit to our Han people’s rule in the north! Moreover, the heirs of the soldiers are all here, and they will truly regard this place as their home in the future.
, truly protect the north." Yang Zhidao.
"That's right! It makes some sense!" Wu Dong nodded.
However, such national policies that are related to the national economy and people's livelihood require careful consideration, and need to be discussed by the Military Aircraft Department before they can be truly implemented. Now Wu Dong has asked people to write down these and send them to the Military Aircraft Department for discussion.
As they talked, they walked forward and gradually came to the Shangjing Palace. When they came here, Wu Dong and Li Gang kept praising that the size of the palace here was really huge, almost three times the size of the Yanjing Palace. The palaces inside
They are all beautifully built. Li Gang was once a Jinshi of the Song Dynasty. In his opinion, although the palaces of the Song Dynasty were exquisite, they were far less majestic than the Shangjing Palace.
They sat down in a hall of the palace. When Yue Fei brought up the cultural relics of the Han people collected in the Shangjing Palace, Wu Dong and Li Gang were shocked! They did not expect that these historical treasures were actually in the Shangjing Palace.
"Zizhi Tongjian, Dongpo's Collected Works! Oh my god, there are even Tang Taizong's pen and ink! The emperor of the Song Dynasty actually turned all these on to the Liao people, damn it!" Wu Dong murmured.
These are priceless treasures, cultural relics left by the ancient Chinese to future generations. The emperor of the Song Dynasty actually gave these as tribute to the Liao people. He is really an unworthy descendant of China! Giving these things to the Khitans would be a waste of nature! In later generations,
, these things have been lost long ago, Wu Dong is still
I thought it was the Mongols who later invaded the Central Plains and were destroyed by the Mongols. I didn't expect that it was in Shangjing City. It was probably destroyed by the Jin people later. Of course, it is also possible that the Mongols suffered a massacre when they invaded here and burned them.
Precious cultural relics were destroyed.
"Grand Governor, the Liao Kingdom's treasury is also in the capital. The Jurchens have not emptied all the treasury. We have already counted it. There are 300,000 taels of gold, 5 million taels of silver, and countless various copper coins in the treasury!"
Yue Fei said.
"That's great!" Wu Dong and Li Gang were both excited.
This era has not yet implemented a modern currency system. It is entirely an ancient gold and silver system. Gold and silver are symbols of wealth. Not only the Liao Kingdom, the Song Dynasty and other places used gold and silver as currency, but also in Japan, Korea, Nanyang, and even Europe.
Gold and silver are also used as currency. With gold and silver, you can exchange for countless wealth.
"Li Gang, a few days ago we discussed the development issues in the north. At that time, we said that there was insufficient gold and silver and it would be difficult to develop. Now Shangjing has accumulated a lot of wealth. I believe there is also a lot of wealth in Zhongjing." Wu Dong said with a smile.
"Grand Governor, it is difficult to develop in the north. Gold and silver are secondary. The main problem is that the population is too small!" Li Gang shook his head and said.
As long as there is a population, such a large place will develop sooner or later. Without a population, no matter how much gold and silver there is, this place will still be a wasteland.
"To develop the north, the first thing is to develop agriculture! There are already so many cities in the north, and there are countless towns and villages around the cities. If these cities and towns are full of people and all go to work and cultivate the land, it won't take long for the north to be
It can develop! After the development of agriculture, people will have enough money to develop trade and industry! And all of this must be based on population." Li Gang said.
"Yes, the population issue is indeed an important issue in the development of the north. We have been discussing these days, and you have also discussed it with some other officials. Tell me, how many people do we need to develop the north?" Wu Dong
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"At least ten million is needed!" Li Gang said.
"Ten million?" Wu Dong was surprised.
The current population of Liangshan, Hedong, Korea, Yanyun, Liaodong and other places combined is only 20 million, but now we need 10 million more people to develop the north! Wudong can transport some of the people in Yanjing who lack land here, but
There are at most two to three million, but it will never reach ten million!
"Actually, ten million is still a small amount, and it may not be able to completely fill this vast area." Li Gang said.
Wu Dong thought carefully and nodded lightly. Compared to this vast area, a population of 10 million is nothing. You know, this is the combined area of Inner Mongolia and the three eastern provinces in later generations. In later generations, this place was
The population of China already exceeds hundreds of millions, and 10 million is simply too few!
"How do we get these people?" Wu Dong said.
"Grand Governor, when Liangshan was first established, why did so many people go to Liangshanbo?" Li Gang said.
"Are you talking about going to the Song Dynasty for propaganda?" Wu Dong said.
"Yes, we will send a large number of spies to the Song Dynasty to promote the Liangshan policy! Especially Hebei, Shandong and other places bordering us, we will tell those people that as long as they are willing to come to the north, all land will be distributed, and it will be tax-free in the first year.
We can even provide them with farm tools! He
There are many people in northern China, Shandong and other places, but countless people have no land, and many of them cannot survive. Now as long as the propaganda is effective, countless people will definitely come! We can also use gold and silver to bribe the Song Dynasty officers on the border to let those Song Dynasty
The officers voluntarily sent some civilians into our hands." Li Gang said.
"Well, this can be considered! From top to bottom in the Song Dynasty, all the officials were extremely greedy for money. We can let these people send people to our Liangshan." Wu Dong said.
"Grand Governor, if you want to develop the north, besides population, there is another important thing." Li Gang said again.