sweeping the world

Chapter 703
In fact, it is not a civil-military dispute. It is a kind of "labor pain" when the Han Dynasty stopped from a large-scale war. For example, the military who wanted to make contributions lost its own stage. People's repeated emphasis on a country's internal affairs has provoked rebellion in the hearts of those who were already lost.

It is said that raising an army takes a thousand days and using it only takes a while. The army must be able to endure loneliness and so on. But from the moment you become a soldier, who doesn’t have a heart to serve the country? They train and train again and again day after day. They can’t wait. The opportunity to play one's own role is of course a good thing for the country and the nation, but it is really inevitable for the soldiers to lose it.

For a long period of time, the Han army was really engaged in large-scale wars. The thirteen standing legions were either on the battlefield or on their way to the battlefield all year round.At that time, the warriors were the happiest. They had enough stages to express themselves, and they could seal their wives by seizing the opportunity.

After the war against Yan, the scale of Han’s foreign wars continued to decline. There were only two standing armies against the remnants of Murong Xianbei and Tuoba Xianbei, and only one standing army guarding the original Zhang’s Liangguo in the northwest. It is only a standing army. In the Indochina Peninsula, there is simply only one standing division. If there is no invasion of the Gupta Dynasty later, there will be almost nine standing troops in the nest stage.

"If the army does not fight for a long time, it will lose its blood." Xu Zheng didn't feel that he was moaning for nothing, and he had nothing to hide from Xie An, who was also a member of the army: "It's only less than a year, although the military equipment and drills have not improved." Abandoned, several standing armies that have not moved for a long time have really seen a decline in combat power."

That is not difficult to understand, no matter how elite troops are, they cannot maintain their combat effectiveness all the time. After the troops have been in a period of peace, the soldiers will inevitably relax psychologically, which extends to all aspects.

What's more, Han has to deal with large-scale natural disasters, and it is difficult to go to war in a short period of time, and there are too many calls for internal affairs, which makes even the military think that it is difficult for them to express themselves. Once the fighting spirit is worn down, relying on training alone will basically not have much effect. What is needed is to be dragged to the battlefield to see the blood again.

Xie An is still more supportive of building internal affairs.It is quite simple to have such a thought. He is not a simple general, and he has his own understanding of how to govern the country.

A country's armed force is based on sufficient logistics, that is, the country's national strength is the guarantee of military force. A country without sufficient national strength, even if its military force can flourish for a while, is either going to destruction in madness, or the country is dying because the people are struggling to survive. into turmoil.

Most of the people who followed Liu Yan and rose from the humble beginnings did not have a good background, and quite a few of them did not receive a good education. When they became ministers of a country, they would do some "tutoring" of knowledge, but a lot of knowledge really does not come from "recruitment". Tuition" will help you figure it out.

Like Xu Zheng, his long-standing experience is that he doesn’t need to worry about the army’s logistics area. He only needs to think about how to lead the army to defeat the enemy and win the victory. Where did you come from.

It is also like Xie An, who has been taught a lot of knowledge since he was a child, and he clearly understands that the army is not an independent entity, the army is a part of the whole country, and the lack of output by the people means that the army has no logistics.

Why does Liu Yan need to accept the family while not liking it?It is because illiteracy cannot govern a country. Knowledge and vision determine a person's height. People who lack knowledge will not know how to govern a country, and people who do not have sufficient vision cannot lead the country to the right path.

Of course Xu Zheng was not illiterate, but he came from a small family, and his knowledge was really not comparable to that of the family.He is still a captain, no matter what position he sits on, he is destined to protect the interests of the military.

Although Xu Zheng didn't say it clearly from the beginning, Xie An really understood what Xu Zheng wanted to express, that is, as a member of the military, he should speak out together, such as the increase of troops to the Ah San battlefield.

[Is it really good to do that? 】Xie An has more concerns: 【Generals can clash with civil servants, but they can't work together to put pressure on the king! 】

For a long time, Liu Yan has been generous enough to the military. If the military is not interested and thinks that as long as they unite, they can change the king's will, no matter how good-tempered the king is, he will inevitably take measures.

Xie An explained his understanding to Xu Zheng.

"Is that so?" Xu Zheng obviously didn't think that much before, but when Xie An reminded him, cold sweat broke out on his forehead instantly: "An Shi reminded you right."

Xie An could only say so much, even if he knew that Xu Zheng, as a captain, only needed to express his appeal to the king, and he didn't need to have a "many people", so he would not say more to Xu Zheng.

The two rode around for a while, and it was already evening when they returned to the camp.

The camp was built at the foot of a mountain. While the back was against the foot of the mountain, there was a stream on the side, and the other two sides were flat grasslands, which was very in line with the standards for the Zhuxia army to establish a camp.

Liu Yan conducted this inspection to personally check the situation in the various counties in Guanzhong. He stopped and stopped along the way, and he has roughly figured out what the situation is.

Today's Guanzhong has a larger population than Chang'an, and the population of Chang'an has migrated from various places in the past two years. The rest of the counties are really empty because of the continuous wars in the past.

After the Han Dynasty established Chang'an as the capital, the early government and military had been calling on the people who had taken refuge to come out of the mountains and forests. It cannot be said that there was no effect, but the effect was very limited.

When there is no war, people will not stay where they are, but they will hide in the mountains with their families when they realize that a war is about to break out.As soon as they hid, many people lost the news. They may have died on the way of migration, or they may not have known about the changes in the current situation outside. As a result, the wars have ended for decades, and the new country has entered what they think is a prosperous age. There will still be government reports from various places to increase the population who have just walked out of the mountains.

There is an obvious example. Liu Bang won the final victory in the struggle between Chu and Han. He established the Great Han, and his descendants created the rule of Wenjing. The folk rangers kept going deep into the mountains and forests, and they were always able to capture a considerable number of savages.

From Liu Bang's founding of the country to Liu Che's war against the Huns, it took six to seventy years to get so many people out of the mountains and forests. You can imagine how many people hid in them when the war broke out.

The official household registration is to register the people according to the head, usually at the age of eight, not at birth.That's because babies are extremely prone to premature death.

The population that has not been registered by the government is the hermit household, also known as the barbarian. The Central Plains Dynasty did not respect the humanity of the hermit household and the barbarian, that is, the law does not protect the hermit household and the barbarian, and killing the hermit household and the barbarian is not It is a crime, that is, no matter whether the hermit or the savage has not paid a single bit of tax for the country.

Any dynasty that has just founded a country will try its best to force or attract the hidden population to come out, which is a source of taxation for the country and a means of increasing the source of troops.

The Han Kingdom established by Liu Yan is doing what all dynasties will do, trying every means to find out the hidden people and make them a part of the country in a true sense.

The population of all parts of the country is increasing every day. In some places, the increase is much larger, and in some places, it will appear to be very small. The counties in Guanzhong belong to the small part.

"It is still necessary to migrate people from various places." Ji Chang said bluntly: "Since the Han Dynasty has established its capital in Guanzhong, the population in Guanzhong is related to the stability of the Han Dynasty."

To put it bluntly, it is still a method of strong stems and weak branches. Not only the capital Chang'an must have a sufficient population, but the more people in Zhili, the better. Comprehensive suppression of the region.

There are almost no people in the counties of Guanzhong. There has been Qiang chaos in the northwestern region of the Eastern Han Dynasty until the later period. The number of Han people has been decreasing again and again. In the state of Jin, the control of the northwest did not actually return to the hands of the center. The Han people living in this piece of land became very small, but the number of Qiang people and Di people continued to increase.

I won’t talk about those that are too long ago, but I will say that Ran Min established the Ran’s Qin Kingdom in Guanzhong seven years ago. The first thing they did after the founding of the country was to expand the Latin army. Afterwards, the Qiang people and the Di people fought again and again, until Ran Min did the thing of surrendering the whole country to Liu Yan, the Han people in Guanzhong died and those who could not be found were not counted. There are less than 20 left.

After Han regained control of Guanzhong, the population registration was carried out for the first time. The population was only a pitiful 12. It is not known how many of them were Qiang and Di people who pretended to be impersonated. In the following years, it increased again and again. The registered population is more than 30.

This year is the eighth year of Yuanshuo. Not counting those who just migrated here, the total population of the so-called Eight Hundred Li Qinchuan is only close to 40, which shows how sparsely populated the land is.

When the Qin Dynasty did not unify the Six Kingdoms, Guanzhong had a population of about 400 million for a long time. According to some official records at that time, there were still quite a lot of places for 400 million people that were not used.

"In the entire Guanzhong, there should be no less than 30 recruitable soldiers." Ji Chang considered from a long-term perspective, talking about the importance of the central center being able to recruit soldiers nearby: "Only in this way can we be called as stable as Mount Tai."

The center of a country must be able to suppress various places, so as to deter all places from doing things to the greatest extent. Any country and any nation will have relevant considerations. It has little to do with believing or not trusting administrative regions other than the central government. Relationships are purely a safe national policy.

"Ten households raise one soldier..." Cai You quickly calculated, "That's 300 million households."

A household is a family, and the number of members in each family is not fixed. Some may be just a husband and wife, and some may be father, mother, husband, wife and children of varying numbers. The number of members of an ordinary family is Actually limited.That was the "separation" system in the Western Han Dynasty. Except for the eldest son of the family, the rest of the males went out on their own after they became adults and got married.But only ordinary families are really supervised, otherwise there would be no aristocratic families.

"After the irrigation systems of the Zhengguo Canal and the Chengguo Canal are restored, and new crops are introduced, it will be no problem for Guanzhong to enrich its population by 1000 million." Ji Chang didn't know where the data came from, and said seriously: "It must It takes a population of that number."

Liu Yan recalled that in his memory, the population of Guanzhong in the Pre-Han Dynasty was stable at around 300 million. In fact, it was not much different from that in the Pre-Qin Dynasty. The population of Guanzhong during the Yang and Sui Dynasties was stable at around 370 million. The population of Guanzhong during the Li and Tang Dynasties was the largest. There are 420 million.He remembered that after the Li and Tang Dynasties, it was not until the Zhu Ming Dynasty that the population of Guanzhong (Shaanxi) exceeded that of the Li and Tang Dynasties, soaring to more than 600 million. Otherwise, the population in other periods was around 200 million, and in some periods it was less.

As the prime minister of the country, Ji Chang strongly demanded that the population of Guanzhong should be more than his own job. Obviously, he dared to say those words after research.

As central ministers, what they need is to be consistent with the Prime Minister, even if it harms various regions outside Guanzhong.

In the seventh year of Yuanshuo, the central government has issued an official document to formulate relevant regulations on migration to Guanzhong. It is similar to the migration of wealthy households in the early Han Dynasty, but it is more targeted at wealthy and aristocratic families. There are countless families from all over the country who need to migrate to Guanzhong. It is also a means of maintaining the stability of the country.

By the eighth year of Yuanshuo, the migration of wealthy families and aristocratic families was already in progress. Those people who migrated did not get compensation, but they would allocate as much land as they had originally, or that many of those lands needed to be recultivated. It's going to hurt your spirits.

The migration under the leadership of Ji Chang is to take a step closer to attack the rich and aristocratic families. While collecting money for future internal affairs, it also makes those people have no financial resources and materials to do things. The methods are somewhat drastic and even disgraceful, but they are related to the country. Time is necessary.

In fact, the officials of the central government were also counted among the victims. At most, they could leave some property in their hometown, but there were really not many left, which meant that they needed to start all over again in Guanzhong just like everyone else.

Liu Yan supports Ji Chang. It is impossible for the Han Dynasty to develop the whole country at the same time. It can only set aside a region for phased construction. Then there is no place more important than the capital circle, as long as it is not destructive to plunder the rest of the region. The construction method only affects some special interests, and it is also beneficial to ordinary people in some ways, such as the redistribution of land in the area after the wealthy and aristocratic families were moved away.

Ji Chang said to everyone: "Although we have a mature military management system, we want to prevent the rich and aristocratic families from being replaced by new groups after they are removed."

(End of this chapter)