Three Kingdoms Strong Army System

"My lord, last month, the population of Guanzhong increased by another 7000!"

"Why are there so many?" Liu Zhang stopped what he was doing.

"Of the 7000 people, four thousand came to Guanzhong from Tongguan, and the remaining three thousand were newborns in Guanzhong!"

Chang Shi put several scrolls of bamboo slips on the table in front of Liu Zhang.

On these scrolls of bamboo slips, there are detailed records of the newborns in various counties in Guanzhong and the immigrants from Tongguan last month.

Among them, most of them came from Tongguan, fleeing from the Luoyang area. Most of them were soldiers, and there were fewer people with their families.

Originally, the population of Guanzhong was several million, but because of the Qiang and Hu military disasters, the people of Guanzhong all went south to Yizhou and east to Luoyang.

In the Guanzhong area, after Liu Zhang's governance in the past two years, the population has also increased a little, but compared with the heyday, the population is still much smaller.

After Liu Zhang carefully read the bamboo slips handed over by Chang Shi, his mood suddenly became bad.

Under the rule of millions of Han people, there are only [-] babies who are born in one month and survive temporarily. This birth rate is really too low.

Liu Zhang's face was gloomy, and the meeting hall was extremely quiet.

After a while, he just said, "Why are there so few babies born among the people?"

Seen by Liu Zhang's sharp eyes, Chang Shi suddenly became terrified, with such terrifying eyes.

He vaguely felt a trace of murderous intent, although the murderous intent was not directed at him, but Chang Shi was still a little scared.

After a moment of silence, Chang Shi silently organized his words, "The people are poor and dare not have children!"

"What?" Liu Zhang was astonished and asked, "The people are so poor!"

Liu Zhang already remembered that although he had 11 troops under his command, only a few of them made meritorious service and received land and money rewards.

He hadn't fought a battle for more than half a year, and the soldiers under his command had no combat achievements to make.

These 11 troops directly affected more than [-] people in [-] households.Among them, only Wanhu had been rewarded with land.

Liu Zhang didn't expect that the people in Guanzhong would still suffer so much after he rectified the officials in Guanzhong and killed dozens of powerful families in Guanzhong.

It seems that it is imperative to increase the population of Guanzhong.

Thinking quickly in Liu Zhang's mind, he felt that if he wanted to increase the population of Guanzhong, he had to divide it into two steps.

The first step is to attract foreign population, and the whole family will move to Guanzhong, so that the population of Guanzhong can be enriched in a short time.

The second step is to increase the birth rate of folk babies. It only takes more than ten years for these babies to grow up to fill the population of Guanzhong.

One has quick results but slow population growth; the other has slow results but rapid population growth.

It is a big taboo for military strategists to go alone, and a two-pronged approach can be a good medicine.

After much deliberation, Liu Zhang felt that it would be best to take two steps together.

"I want to increase the fertility of the people and make the people have more children. Is there a clever strategy?" Liu Zhang looked at the long history in front of him.

Chang Shi thought about it for a while, and then said: "The rich have many children because they are rich, and the common people have few children. It's not because they don't want to have children, but because they can't support them. If the people are rich, they will naturally have more children."

Liu Zhang suddenly understood that the key to wanting people to have more children is fertility.

To put it simply, it is money. As long as there is enough money, people will have more children.

The more children you have, the stronger your family will be.

It seems that if you want people to have more children, you need to make them rich. Only when they are rich can they have the ability to have children and support them.

"I understand what you said. I want to issue a decree to promote more lives for the people."

Liu Zhang discussed with Chang Shi for a while, and then asked him to step down. He thought about it all night, and remembered what Yue State did back then.

In just two days, a decree was promulgated from the Chang'an prefect's mansion, and then quickly spread to all counties in Guanzhong.

This decree is the birth reward order.

This birth reward order was revised and formulated by Liu Zhang in conjunction with the national policy of Yue State in the Spring and Autumn Period.

For all the common people in Guanzhong, if a woman does not marry at seventeen, her parents are guilty; if a man does not marry at twenty, her parents are guilty.When a man and a woman reach the age of marriage, if there is no marriage, the government will act as a matchmaker.For one son, one pot of wine and five hundred dollars; for two sons, one sheep and one thousand dollars; for the third son, one cow and two thousand dollars; for four children, one house and three thousand dollars; for five children , Jin Jue.

Liu Zhang's birth reward order stipulates that people must marry at the right age, otherwise their parents will be punished, and more children will be rewarded at the same time.

Moreover, there is no distinction between male and female children, so as to avoid an imbalance in the ratio of male to female.As long as you are born, you will be rewarded.

After this fertility reward order was sent to all counties in Guanzhong, all county magistrates and county chiefs immediately and quickly implemented it. The decree was issued to all townships, and each township was to be issued to every village.

The half-year-long administration of officials and Fayan's iron and blood methods made officials at all levels in Guanzhong dare not disobey the decrees of Chang'an City.

In just one month, people in every township and village in Guanzhong knew about the fertility reward order.

In the past, people did not dare to have more children because their families were poor, but now because of rewards from the government, some families finally dared to have more children.

Liu Zhang knew that the birth reward order alone was not enough.Only by making the people rich can they completely let go of life.

For this reason, after the birth reward order was issued, Liu Zhang summoned officials from the prefect's mansion to start a long-term economic development plan.

His plan is very long.

It includes three major blocks: agriculture, commerce and industry.

Among them, the people are encouraged to farm, and those with high yields per mu can be rewarded appropriately, and the people are encouraged to open up wasteland.The newly reclaimed fields are tax-free for the first three years, and half tax for the next two years.

In terms of business, all kinds of tolls will be reduced, unified into transaction tax, and the tax rate will be adjusted according to the profit of the product.For commodity transactions, only at the moment of the transaction, the transaction tax is paid to the government of the transaction place.The commercial tax of the shops in the county is paid once a month according to its size.People set up street stalls in the city and pay the city entry tax every day instead.

In terms of industry, the government is the mainstay, and the folks are supplemented. Iron, pottery, textile and other industries, workshops, factories, standardize industry rules, encourage normal commercial competition, and provide technical guidance.

These three blocks basically include all commercial activities of this era.And for profiteering places such as gambling houses and brothels, heavy taxes are imposed.

Liu Zhang's economic plan was very bold. When he brought it up for discussion, many officials opposed it.

However, the far-sighted officials all know that if the implementation continues, Guanzhong will be able to develop vigorously, and they all support it very much.

During the implementation, we still encountered great resistance and various difficulties, and then Liu Zhang had absolute control over the 11 troops in Guanzhong.

Even though the resistance was very strong, after he launched the army, he finally pushed forward.

The entire Guanzhong, under the command of officials at all levels and the awe of the army, began to follow the route set by Liu Zhang in an orderly manner.

On the other hand, under the rule of the Kanto princes, it was still a mess.