Dahan first prince

Chapter 391: Crossing the River by Feeling the Stones
A wedding banquet made Anhua City, which had always been shrouded in depression, finally usher in the first ray of excitement in the past two years;
And in the distant city of Chang'an, Emperor Liu Ying was also worried about the future of Andong County.

Sitting with Wang Ling and Yang Chengyan in the Qingliang Hall, the faces of the three monarchs and ministers all had a lingering worry.

As for the reason, there is only one.

——The aborigines in Andong County, and the 'marriage' issue of the soldiers of the farming regiments.

Even in later generations, women are always reluctant to marry in areas that are too far away or too poor, let alone in today's era where communications and transportation are extremely underdeveloped;
Regarding the Korean Peninsula, or "Andong County", which has now been included in the territory of the Han Dynasty, the views of the women in the Central Plains are basically still at the level of "a group of surplus sons who can't eat enough to be immigrated by the government".

In later generations, will there be women who are willing to marry to the northwest and plateau?
The same reasoning: in today's Han Dynasty, no one is willing to marry far away from the border, let alone marry to the land of new clothes farther than the border: Anton.

Women from the Central Plains are unwilling to marry far away, so the bachelors in Andong County can only count on the emperor Liu Ying to take care of their major life events.

——If a man fails to marry a wife, he will have a big problem~
Especially in this era where the concept of "carrying on the family line" is still very strong. Marrying a wife and having children is what every man pursues all his life.

It is true that the "Han people" in Andong County today are basically the "Yuzi" group who immigrated in the form of farming groups;
Within three to five years, these new immigrants will still live in semi-military collectives.

Even in the future, some people really want to leave because they can't marry a wife. With the Han Dynasty's strict household registration system and population movement control, it will be difficult for these people to escape from Andong back to the Central Plains.

But as the saying goes: blocking is worse than sparse.

Blindly and long-term coercive and high-pressure policies cannot solve fundamental problems.

In order for these immigrants to take root in Andong willingly and make the Korean peninsula "since ancient times", the Chang'an court must not only ensure the production and living issues of these new immigrants, but also consider the more realistic marriage issue.

How can a new piece of soil be "since ancient times"?
The answer is: Immigrants enrich the population, and through three to five generations of reproduction, this place is completely brought under the control of the central government.

To put it more bluntly, it is to let the people who immigrated here say a sentence in authentic Chinese after a hundred years: My family has lived here for generations.

Since the purpose is to reproduce offspring, it is obviously impossible to achieve such a goal only by relying on the farming group and a group of rough men.

In this way, the cause of Liu Ying's headache surfaced.

——Where do you go to find a marriage for this group of bachelors?

——How to find a reason for these tens of thousands, and possibly even hundreds of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of bachelors in the future to "take root in Anton for generations"?
Regarding this issue, Wang Ling has his own opinion.

"His Majesty."

"I still think that the soldiers of the farming regiment should be allowed to marry freely with the local people;"

"Only in this way can the soldiers of today's farming regiment be turned into the Andong County citizens of tomorrow."

After saying something in a deep voice, Wang Ling took another deep breath and expressed his concerns.

"Only in the past, the evils that Prime Minister Cao said must not be ignored."

"—Today's Andong has acquired three divisions, the Pyongyang Commander-in-Chief, the Northern Commander-in-Chief, and the Eastern Commander-in-Chief, with a total of 23 farming regiments; the garrison of these three divisions is nearly [-] people;"

"However, the imperial court belongs to the former Korean people, and they are still governed by different households, and they are not regarded as 'Han people'."

"If Andong's 'Han people' were allowed to marry freely with the former Korean people, then the Korean civilian men would have no women to marry, and they might go south to Mahan, Chenhan and other countries."

"In this way, the strong labor that Anton can use is for nothing for the southern tribes..."

When he said these words full of worry, Wang Ling also sighed and closed his eyes to think again.

At the beginning of this year, Prime Minister Cao Shen was lying on the bed due to illness, and the imperial physician's office gave a conclusion: life, old age, sickness and death are human nature.

If there are no accidents, as early as this summer and autumn, as late as next winter, Cao Shen will also reach his end.

The prime minister was seriously ill, and Wang Ling, who had long been designated by Emperor Taizu Gao as his successor, stepped forward without hesitation, and took charge of all the affairs of the prime minister's mansion as an internal historian.

As for the issue of Andong County, as the governor Lu Lu reported more and more frequently, it was put on the court of Chang'an.

——After two years of hard work, the Pyongyang Duwei Tungengjia Regiment, which first arrived in Anhua City, has basically completed the task of opening up wasteland in the headquarters;
By the spring of next year at the latest, the Pyongyang Duwei Tungengjia Regiment will complete the land reclamation work of a total of 40 mu of land required by the regiment.

2000 people, 40 mu, which is exactly in accordance with the standard of "two hundred mu per person" set by Liu Ying back then.

Now, the soldiers of the farming regiment who are close to completing their tasks are also beginning to think about their future.

The land reclamation task was completed ahead of schedule, so the transformation from farming regiments to farmers would naturally have to be done ahead of schedule;
According to the rules of the court, next autumn, when the 40 mu of the Pyongyang Duweitun Gengjia Group’s [-] mu of land will be harvested, the Pyongyang Duweitun Gengjia Group will be disbanded in situ and become the Andong County Government—the first two thousand troops in Anhua City. household 'farmer' time.

In the past two years, the 40 mu of land reclaimed by the Pyongyang Duwei Tungengjia regiment will also be distributed to [-] regiment soldiers at [-] mu per household in accordance with the promise of the court.

For those [-] regiment soldiers, this means 'establishment';
Now that they have 'established a career', the next step is naturally to start a family.

The acres of fields have been cultivated by myself with one hoe and one hoe; the farm house has already been distributed to myself.

Then, naturally, the good life of the wives and children on the kang was waving to the two thousand regiment soldiers.

However, in the report sent back by the county guard Lu Lu, these two thousand soldiers were all pessimistic about their future "life events" without exception.

The reason is simple: there are not many Central Plains women in Anton County today!

The army sent by the court to garrison, as well as the twenty or so farming regiments, were all men without exception!

In desperation, with the mentality of "trying by chance", Chaotang issued a decree this spring, allowing the soldiers of the Pyongyang Duwei Tungengjia Regiment to take their family members who are willing to rely on themselves to Andong, and the court will bear the responsibility. toll;

The result was not as expected by Wang Ling: the entire "family" team had thousands of people, but there were only more than fifty women of marriageable age.

In the territory of Antona, it is naturally impossible for these fifty women to marry the local aborigines, and there is a high probability that they will be absorbed by the Pyongyang Duwei Tungengjia regiment;
But out of the 50 regiment soldiers, only [-] of them solved the major issues in their lives. They undoubtedly told the Chang'an court that women in the Central Plains are already hopeless...

What's more: these fifty comrades who were the first to start a family may make the rest of the regiment even more eager to get married and have children as soon as possible!
In this way, the issue of 'farming and forming a family and starting a business', which had been shelved indefinitely by the Chang'an court, suddenly became a bit urgent.

Women in the Central Plains can't count on it. The first thing that comes to Chaotang's mind is naturally "relying on the mountains to eat the mountains, and relying on the water to eat the water"-to let the soldiers of the farming regiment find their love among the local aborigines.

But this proposal brought the issue of resettlement of the local aborigines in North Korea to the table again...
"Um······"

"An Guohou's concern is also my concern."

On the imperial couch, Emperor Liu Ying bowed her head in thought for a long time, and finally nodded slowly.

"If the pawns of the garrison regiment are the wives of the local Korean survivors, then the rest should also take measures."

The logic couldn't be simpler;
For the local aborigines in North Korea, the establishment of Andong County means that these people have become theoretical "Han people",

But before the establishment of Andong County, when the local aborigines of North Korea were registered as householders, the Chang'an court did not include these people in the "agricultural registration", but in Andong County, an unprecedented invention of the "Minji".

Minji, as the name suggests, is the household registration of the people.

But in the Central Plains, although scholars, farmers, businessmen and other groups are considered "minors", no one has ever been included in the "civilian registration". Instead, they are included in agricultural registration, business registration, or official registration or palace registration according to their origin.

This is like in later generations, there will be calculus, algebra, geometry, statistics and other courses on the schedule of mathematics majors, but it is impossible to have a course called "mathematics";
The people of the Han family have agricultural registration, business registration, and even official and palace registration, but they do not have 'civilian registration'.

After the war of the Eastern Expedition to Weiman Korea, the people who lived under the rule of North Korea were included in the 'nationality';
It was only when the soldiers were sent to the local farming regiments that they were later included in the local 'agricultural registration'.

Afterwards, the relationship between the local people and the farming groups can be said to be the same as the well water does not violate the river water.

——The farming group takes the city as the center and reclaims wasteland around; while the local people still rely on the survival skills left by their ancestors to fish and hunt.

The farming group is a semi-military group, and the group members basically have no other private property except the farmyard, so there is basically no communication between these group members and the locals.

Go up to the sky, that is, the generals of the farming regiment came forward and exchanged collective property with the local people for some supplies.

In the past two years, the well water did not interfere with the river water, and finally the uneasy hearts of the local people gradually settled down, and they got used to continuing to live in the local area as "Han people".

But for these people, Chang'an Chaotang has no definite resettlement plan so far.

The core of the problem lies mainly in the living habits of the local people.

Some people have proposed that the local people be directly included in the agricultural registration, and pay taxes, taxes, military service, and labor in accordance with the Han law;
However, the unique way of life of the local people made it impossible for the court to make up its mind to collect agricultural taxes from these new Han people and let these new Han people bear legally fixed obligations.

——Because the way of life of most Korean aborigines is to fish in spring and summer, and occasionally go hunting in the mountains, and then use the autumn to make the prey into dried meat!
Collect agricultural taxes from such groups?

How to collect it?
Thirty tax one?

For every [-] fish caught, pay one of them as agricultural tax?
And oral Fu, so what?
Forty dollars per person per year?
Or according to the market price of fish, how many more fish will be charged?
In addition, the military service and labor service undertaken by the people of the Central Plains are equally difficult for these indigenous people who live by fishing and hunting.

There is no other reason: the implementation of military service and labor service is based on the fact that farmers guard the farmland all the time and never travel far.

However, the North Korean people who live on fishing and hunting will leave their residences in families, clans and tribes almost every spring, and go to the rivers to fish;

Until the middle of summer, these people will end their fishing work and start hunting in different places for more meat.

During this period, the men in the tribe go out to hunt, and the women, children, and children are responsible for processing the prey and making it into dried fish and meat that can be preserved for a longer period of time.

In autumn, these people will return scattered, nest in their own caves or tree holes, quietly waiting for the arrival of winter.

This made it impossible to copy the military service and labor service system implemented by the Han family in the Central Plains to these Korean natives.

To give a very simple example;

One summer, Andong County wanted to build a road, so they sent officials to collect labor. It turned out that the Koreans with a radius of hundreds of miles didn't know where to go to catch fish!
Or in the autumn of a certain year, Anton County decided to organize winter training, allowing young people to participate in military training according to the practice of the Central Plains. As a result, the officials almost broke their legs, and they couldn't find the cave where these people lived...
To put it bluntly, the headache of Chang'an Chaotang is the local aborigines in North Korea, who are highly mobile;
Not to mention going out to fish and hunt, even the residence is the same as the Huns, wherever they go.

The tree hole that I lived in for several years, when did it look unpleasant, so I threw it away;
Or in a certain year, if you come back late from fishing and hunting, you may find a similar place on the spot and just make do with it.

And it is different from the Central Plains, when a farmer disappears, the government can still ask the neighbors and neighbors-the Korean aborigines live in tribes, as long as they are thrown away, they will be thrown away with the entire tribe of the 'established system'!

Officials want to find, but they can't find anyone who can inquire!

The unique way of life naturally caused Chang'an Chaotang to rack his brains, but he has not been able to find a solution so far.

As an expedient measure, "Minji" has been preserved since the battle of Weiman Korea in the east.

At this moment, the issue of resettlement of the local aborigines is also on the table along with the problem of the farming group's "unable to marry a wife".

This time, even if Chaotang wanted to procrastinate, he couldn't procrastinate...

"Um······"

"I think that it may be possible to implement the order of 'marry a daughter and a soldier of the farming regiment, and the whole family will be registered as a farmer in Andong County', and try it out in the Pyongyang Duwei Tungengjia regiment."

"Wait until the next year, see the effect of this policy, then discuss and abolish it, and follow along."

Hearing Liu Ying's words, Wang Ling and Yang Chengyan thought over and over again, but they finally accepted the order.

National integration may cause many unexpected problems;
For example, Korean male aborigines who lost their right to marry may go south to Mahan, Jinhan and other foreign vassal states, causing Andong County to lose part of its strong labor force.

But right now, Chang'an Chaotang has no other choice.

——After all, even if Anton County doesn't lose these strong laborers, it still doesn't know how to use them...
(End of this chapter)