sweeping the world

Chapter 453
The registered population of the Han State is just over 500 million, which includes Qingzhou, Xuzhou, part of Yanzhou, part of Yuzhou, part of Liaodong County, and part of Jizhou, and does not include the population of recently occupied land.

The 500 million is counting Jin people and naturalized Hu people. There are nearly 40 naturalized Hu people, and the rest are Han Miao descendants. This figure does not include slaves. The total population of Han should be close to that of slaves. 760 million.

For a long period of time in the future, the Han Kingdom will not only focus on the development of Qingzhou and Xuzhou, it is bound to build the fully occupied Yanzhou, and restore the vitality of the Central Plains as quickly as possible.

If those places without statistics are counted, Han should be able to increase its population by another two to three million, which is close to ten million. For a country that has only been established for six years, a country that has grown from nothing The process can be said to be very fast.

It is impossible to increase national strength simply by having a population without construction, so the restoration of agriculture in various places is the first priority.

There are so many things involved in agriculture. Removing wasteland and turning it into fields is only the first step. Reorganizing the irrigation system is the most important thing. Otherwise, the crops will not be able to survive without water if the seeds are planted.In this case, re-repairing some irrigation water systems has become a must-do in advance.

Restoring agriculture is only one aspect. Farming is production, and if there are goods, we must communicate with each other, so that various outputs can be circulated, and it is also a tax contribution to the country.

"All parts of Qingzhou have not been greatly affected by the riots of the barbarians. It's just that the people who have been working in the countryside recently are the elderly, the weak, women and children, and the speed of recovery has shown a rapid decline." Sang Yu is in charge of internal production planning and monitoring, and some data Knowing everything well, he said: "Our original plan was only to use the army on a large scale for one year. The minister's opinion is to suppress the violence of the domestic barbarians and return the labor force to their hometown."

In the second year of Han Yuanshuo, the Han Dynasty conducted three major conscriptions, the first enlistment was 20, the second enlistment was 30, and the third enlistment was 15.The three conscriptions took out a large number of young and strong folks, and the recruits were still the first batch of people who were brought under the rule of the Han Dynasty, which indeed had a great impact on the folk production system.

Now the territory of the Han State has increased again and again. In fact, there are not only two complete states, Qingzhou and Xuzhou, but Yanzhou has also been fully recovered.

In Yuzhou, part of the territory was controlled by the small imperial court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, but the Han State controlled eight tenths.

Because Jizhou has been in a tug-of-war relationship, it is bounded by Hejian County and Bohai County. The north is controlled by the Hu people, and the south is owned by the Han Dynasty.

The territory captured in the new year does not count the population, let alone get any output from it. On the contrary, it will consume national power again and again.

At present, the total number of the Han army is very large. The 65 new army recruited in the second year of Yuanshuo, the original 14 field corps, the servant army and the slave army are close to 40, plus the recent collection and reorganization of more than 150 Ten thousand, the total force is almost [-] million.

"The country is gradually stabilized, and it is planned to release troops to return to the countryside." Ji Chang was the Prime Minister of Zuo, and the Han Dynasty did not appoint a Taiwei, let alone a General, General of Chariots, General of Hussars, General of Wei, and Prime Minister Zuo was in charge He also has the right to speak on military affairs: "The headquarters of the Northern Expedition Corps is 14, and there are young and strong recruits from the local area. The number of troops on this side is not limited. , The minister’s opinion is to keep 65 as soldiers in local counties and counties, and return the rest to their hometowns. The servant army and slave army will be revoked and no longer accept people who are not of our race.”

Ji Chang didn't mention the original field corps. The early field corps lost members continuously during the campaign. By the third year of Yuanshuo, there were only [-] remaining units.

The Han State has never had a system of frontier troops, because the borders of the Han State have not yet stabilized, and it is now the pioneering period of the Han State, which is not a node to draw lines and solid defenses. Some are field corps.

Later, Ji Chang mentioned the field corps. He said: "Except for the Northern Expedition Corps, it is an appropriate number to maintain the number of field corps at 25."

The field corps of the Han army is really the main battle corps. After repeated restructuring, it has been confirmed that the organizational system of Wu, Shi, team, Tun, and Qu remains unchanged. There should be as many soldiers as there should be. When it reaches 5000 people, it will be a unit. At that time, the infantry had [-] combat soldiers and [-] auxiliary soldiers. Then it was no longer that each soldier had a personal auxiliary soldier, but instead had specialized supply and service units.Because of the special relationship of the cavalry, while there is a [-] cavalry, the corresponding auxiliary cavalry for the rest of the cavalry except the light cavalry is still retained.

According to the figure of 25 field corps.The number of the infantry should be 15. If you count the subsidiary organizations, the infantry actually has close to 32 non-direct combat soldiers.The number of cavalry is [-], [-] are light cavalry, [-] are cavalry, and [-] are armored cavalry. Then the cavalry has as many as [-] auxiliary cavalry.Overall, the total number of personnel is still as many as [-].

The military system of the Han army will completely eliminate the dependence on civilian workers, so the corvee policy of the Han state will no longer have the term "genius".

The so-called Gengzu is a militiaman who needs to serve three months a year in corvee service.Gengzu and Zhengzu were the source of troops in the Western and Eastern Han Dynasties.

Because of the war with the Xiongnu for more than 130 years in the Western Han Dynasty, almost all men of the right age in the country had the experience of serving as soldiers. However, the number of full-time soldiers in the Western Han Dynasty, that is, when the number of soldiers was the largest, was less than [-].

The foreign wars of the Eastern Han Dynasty took the frontier army as the main force, and recruited Liangjiazi to supplement and expand the number of troops. In fact, the frontier army was mainly composed of soldiers who served corvee. As a result, there were only eight schools of soldiers in the Eastern Han Dynasty, divided into the Southern Army and the Northern Army.The number of students in a school ranges from 1000 to 3000, and it also employs a considerable number of Southern Huns, Karasuma, and Xianbei.

Under the leadership of Liu Yan, there were no more pawns in the Han Dynasty, which was laying the foundation for the further restructuring of the army. For example, after the soldiers of the field corps were selected as frontiers and entered a certain organizational system, how many fields would they get when registering and making books? The field is the military salary given to the soldiers, so there is the shadow of the Fubing system.

In addition to gaining land after joining the army, soldiers will also become vested interests of twenty-level nobles after they perform meritorious service.Each level of the [-]th rank will have corresponding rewards. It is destined that the military will be the biggest beneficiary when the country expands outwards, allowing the army to maintain enthusiasm for foreign expeditions. To put it bluntly, Liu Yan is building a military that has been expanding outwards. Base.

From the perspective of civil servants, they don't want the military to take the majority of their interests. However, there are no pure civil servants at present. The emphasis is on dismounting and becoming an official. There are differences between civil servants and generals, but the contradiction between the two Not sharp.

"Leave the matter of the Northern Expedition to the Northern Expedition Corps." Liu Yan's attention has gradually shifted to the south, and he asked: "On the matter of the Southern Expedition, all ministers can express their opinions."

With the main force of Shihu avoiding the battle again and again, it can be confirmed that the war on the northern front will last for a long time. Ran Min has entered Guangping County, and the next step is to attack Henan. The next thing he will face is not just Shijie and Zhao Jun. Hu people, once the Shijie Zhao State really transfers Youzhou to the Murong Yan State, the Lu Tai Corps will be transferred southward, and the Northern Expedition Corps will face the Shijie Zhao Army headed by Shijie and the Murong Yan Army headed by Murong Xianbei.

It is inevitable for the Lu Tai Corps to go south. His unit belongs to the field corps system, and it is the field corps' business to attack the south, so how can the Lu Tai Corps be absent.

"Before going south, we must first build momentum." Ji Chang squinted his eyes and said, "The king insisted on national righteousness, so that all the survivors of the Central Plains greeted our army with sacks of milk. There are three to four million people in the south, and there are millions of people. It was after the Yongjia Rebellion that they fled south, and the big man beat up the Hulu so that they felt sympathy..."

According to historical records, the population of Soochow at the end of the period was about 250 million. This data does not include Zhuyue and Zhuman.From the Soochow period to the "Clothing Crown South Crossing", there were many wars, but the scope of the impact was not wide. It is conservatively estimated that the population should have increased to about 300 million.With the collapse of the Western Jin Dynasty and the small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, there are roughly one million people who fled from the Central Plains to the south of the Yangtze River. Then the population under the small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty is roughly 400 million.

"Is there any concern?" Sang Yu didn't want to refute Ji Chang, he said with a smile: "It should be more shame than joy."

Ji Chang just glanced at Sang Yu and didn't talk to him, and continued to say to Liu Yan: "We can win a certain amount of popular support and use it for the big man."

Liu Yan is more inclined to what Sang Yu said. The northern family who fled south has been competing with the native family south of the Yangtze River.The northern aristocratic families who fled to the south will not be happy about the new Han State’s continuous victory over the Hu people, and may even have a feeling of resentment. Then we can judge the result from the recent jumping up and down of the small imperial court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty.

In the small imperial court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, there were people who were determined to make the Northern Expedition, and most of them were cowards who were frightened by the Hu people.The group of people who aspired to the Northern Expedition and really put it into action are now dead. Most of the survivors belong to Liu Yan, and most of them are trapped in the quagmire of internal strife that is difficult to break out of.

"Yu Yi has gone north." When Lu Yi spoke, he glanced at Ji Chang first, then lowered his head: "Yu Yi brought the third generation of his family to the north, and temporarily settled at the Langya Stone Carving."

Yu Yi's journey to the north was a sensation. At the beginning, it was only Yu Yi who brought his grandchildren with him, and it was necessary for the family guards.Before they arrived on the banks of the Yangtze River, they gathered many families.Among the families who are planning to go north with Yu Yi, there are many first- and second-tier families. The difference from the Yu family is that these families who go north are not entirely younger generations, and even have contemporary patriarchs.

"Except for Yugong, they are just a bunch of grass." Sang Yu said with some disdain: "Seeing that the big men are about to recover most of the Central Plains, there are many guys who want to return to their hometowns with land deeds."

There are quite a few families with land deeds from the south and north of the Yangtze River. In the past few years, the local government of the Han Dynasty has encountered a lot.Those people came to the government with the title deed of a certain piece of land, and tried to return the property to the original owner with various attitudes, which caused great problems for the local government.

Speaking of the problem, those are some people holding the title deeds. The land title deeds in their hands are really scary, and they are all land suitable for farming.

The Han army liberated a land. Of course, most of the land was in a barren state due to Shijie Zhao’s policy, but there was no shortage of land cultivated by people. There was no change in the land before the settlement of the tyranny. Part of the land was owned by the state, and some land was awarded to meritorious persons.

The local government encountered many problems. The biggest problem is that the land that is easy to cultivate is basically rewarded to the meritorious. The owner of the land fights and works hard in the army. stage.The land already has a new owner, but the old owner is holding the title deed to request the return of the property to the original owner.It is impossible for the local government to deprive the property from the new owner, but the old owner has the title deed, and is caught in a dilemma.

What Sang Yu dealt with the most in Yuzhou was the issue of land ownership.

Yuzhou is close enough to the small imperial court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. On the premise that the Han State emphasized ethnic concepts, it did not restrict people who thought they were descendants of the Han family from returning to their hometowns. During the small imperial court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, there was no shortage of people from the south going north.

When Sang Yu came to Yuzhou in person, he had to contact the southern aristocratic families. Some aristocratic families are very knowledgeable about current affairs, while others are deliberately making things difficult. It belongs to the Han Kingdom, and everything is decided by the Han Kingdom.

"Who shed the sweat and blood?" Sang Yu said forcefully: "According to my minister's opinion, those who know the current affairs can get appropriate compensation, and the rest...hehe!"

Liu Yan can clearly distinguish the difference between his own people and those who are not his own. He has a broad mind, but it is difficult for him to nod silently to express his attitude regardless of closeness and distance.

The rise of any power represents a new reshuffle. Whatever camp you sit on should guarantee the interests of your own people. The national policy of the Han Kingdom has long been determined. Those who participate can share the benefits, and those who don’t pay can get away How far is far.

The state holds most of the land, which is a necessary means and a last resort. The land will slowly be transferred to the private sector, but for a long time, it will only be rewarded to those who have made meritorious deeds, so as not to go to the former Qin Empire because there is not enough land. Land rewards caused the military and civilians to collapse.

"Yugong is going north, and I have to meet with him." Liu Yan is still quite aware of the strength of the Yu clan in the south of the Yangtze River, and he said in a relaxed tone: "If Yugong wants to regain the family property in the Central Plains, The widow is still willing to nod."

This sentence made everyone present chuckle. They knew what Liu Yan meant. The Yu family, once the largest clan south of the Yangtze River, was currently in a state of decline, but the skinny camels were still worse than Martha, if the Yu clan had defected, the Han army's Southern Expedition would have been much easier, so it would be no problem to add another person to share the benefits.

(End of this chapter)