Great Warriors of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 1109
Li Jing returned to South Sea City.

Now he is so busy that he can only sleep for two hours every day. As the appeasement envoy of the Three Paths of Lingnan Economic Strategy, although the rebellion of the Ning family and others has been put down, it is not easy to deal with the aftermath.

Unless the imperial court can follow the example of the former dynasty and implement the detainment system for Lingnan, no household registration, no land measurement, no tax collection, no military mansion, appoint those handsome men and heroes as county magistrates, and only charge a symbolic fee every year Tribute.

This is impossible after all.

"Since the Han Dynasty, although Lingnan has been included in the central territory, it has not been included in the household registration statistics of the imperial court, and it has not been taxed. It has been 800 years now."

The county officials said to Li Jing.

"How many Han Chinese are there in the Three Daos of Lingnan?"

"Less than 10 people."

"Then how many sluts and barbarians are there in the Three Paths of Lingnan?"

"There is no exact figure for this, because there has never been a formal statistics, but it is estimated that there are no less than two to three million people. When Mrs. Xian was in charge of Feng Xian's family, she was in charge of Qiandong, with a population of 300. Feng Xian's two The family only occupies the land of two or three counties. The farther to the west, the more scumbags and barbarians, and the more they do not abide by the king's laws and refuse to obey the education."

Li Jing nodded. In this way, the barbarians in Lingnan are at least [-] to [-] times the number of Han people, or even more, and even if there are less than [-] Han people, many of them have already lived with Baiyue for countless generations. Many of them are no different from those familiar slang, with the same broken hair and tattoos, and they speak vernacular.

Although the imperial court has now set up three routes in Lingnan, with [-] counties and hundreds of counties, it is only a shelf, except for Nanhai County, Guilin County and Jiaozhi County, which are the key places for the control of Lingnan in the previous dynasties. The control power is relatively strong, and there is no rule at all in other places.

"Now that the 72 government barracks have been deployed, the next step is to build camps, build camps, and build post stations. The military is proceeding in an orderly manner, but if we don't even know how many barbarians there are, then Let’s not mention the next reforms.”

Checking household registration and drawing maps are the basis of governance.

Just like when soldiers approach the city and are forced to surrender, they must first present their household registration albums and maps of mountains and rivers.

"Xuanshuai, in the three Lingnan provinces, there are thousands of creeks up the mountain, and there are also countless alliances of streams and caves. There are thousands of big ones and dozens of small ones. The subordinates have endless vendettas, and I'm afraid they may not be willing to obey Wang Hua now."

Li Jing ignored this.

"Feng Chenning and other clans are only a few generations in Lingnan, but don't they also make the local bureaucrats obey?"

"Xuanshuai, even if Feng's married the leader of the slang, the Xian family, the slang doesn't mean that they belong to their hometown."

Liao refused to be naturalized, because naturalization meant paying taxes and taxes and serving in the military.

"Have to think of a way!"

If you can't even grasp the household registration, then nothing else will be discussed.

"Well, send people to the various Xidong alliances to inform the big and small chiefs and elders to come to the South China Sea, and say that this commander represents the imperial court and wants to form an alliance with them."

"Meeting?"

"For those who come, my commander will give them official ranks on behalf of the imperial court. Those who don't come will fight against the imperial court and have evil intentions. My commander will lead my troops to conquer them."

All the officials were stunned, didn't they say that these chiefs and commanders would no longer be awarded officials, why are they going to be awarded officials now?
"This official is not that official. It's just a loose official rank, not an official with a job." Li Jing explained.

There is still a big difference between casual officials and post officials. A casual official is just equivalent to a rank and enjoys some corresponding treatment and privileges, while a post official is equivalent to managing a certain area of ​​affairs, so one is a rank and the other is a position. There are staff in charge.

For these slang leaders who claim to be Qushuai, old, or chieftains, the imperial court will never give them the titles of prefects and county magistrates easily, but it is not a hindrance to give them some civil and military ranks.

"Then what will the alliance talk about?"

"The commander-in-chief called them here on the grounds that he wanted to mediate the old grievances for Zhuxidong and draw a boundary for them."

As long as the leaders of the Daxidong Alliance come and sit together, Li Jing will have a chance.

In the name of mediation, discuss with them and draw up boundaries.At that time, in the name of commercial transactions, these Xidong chiefs can be organized and let them help build a few roads.

"Take your time, we don't rush for success. This commander has already asked His Majesty for orders. As long as these scumbags are willing to become naturalized, the imperial court will recognize the mountains, forests and fields they occupy, and exempt them from the two-year tax for five years. After five years, you can pay half tax for another five years."

"Xuan Shuai, even if it is a ten-year tax exemption, they may not be willing, after all, they have never paid taxes before."

"Don't jump to conclusions, step by step, starting from this year, the imperial court will exempt the tribute from Xidong chiefs from all over the country, and they don't need to pay any more local products."

An older eight-rank official sat there and listened for a long time, but he came up with a good idea.

"Xuanshuai, the slang people are good at fishing, and the bureaucrats are good at hunting. They also know a little bit of farming, but the technology is backward, slash-and-burn farming, and most of them don't know how to farm cattle. I think it will be counterproductive if the imperial court forces them to naturalize. It is better to lure them for profit. For example, for those who are willing to become naturalized, the imperial court not only recognizes their original land, but if each family’s land is less than [-] mu, we can also allocate another piece of wasteland for them as a permanent occupation, and make up [-] mu.”

"In addition, as long as they are naturalized, the government can send people to instruct them to use cattle farming, and sell them better farm tools. Even, after naturalization, if there are people over [-] in the family, or Those who are under ten years old, the government can give them some salt for free every year."

"It doesn't need much. It doesn't cost much to give an old man or a child three to five catties of salt a year, but which slang family doesn't have old people and children. If there are three or four old people and children in a family, there will be twenty or thirty catties a year. It’s a catty of salt, this good thing picked for nothing, I believe it will be very tempting.”

The three roads in Lingnan are all close to the sea. The imperial court has set up several salt farms here, which can not only supply the needs of Lingnan, but also sell the salt in Jiangnan, Central Plains and other places. Even Linyi is their market.The cost of salt is very low, and it is only ten cents per bucket if collected directly from the salt people, which still leaves enough profit for the salt people.

Even if a household subsidizes them two or three buckets of salt a year, it is only twenty or thirty dollars, and hundreds of thousands of households are fully subsidized, which is not much money.

As for the salt tax issue, anyway, Lingnan is still very confused here.

However, the transportation required some cost. As a result, the official said that the government only needs to send the salt to the counties, and then let each cave transport it back to the county by itself, or even let the barbarians pick it up by themselves.

"It's a good idea, you can try it."

Li Jing praised, as long as you put your heart into it, there are always more solutions than difficulties.

In the two Lingnan Wars, what the Great Qin court actually defeated was not the slutty barbarians, but the powerful Han Chinese who used to lead these barbarians.

"According to this way of thinking, we can also lure these leaders of the Xidongman. For example, granting them official ranks, doing business with them, or even giving them a little agency power for transactions." Li Jing said.

"Xuan Shuai is brilliant!" A group of officials flattered one after another, but Li Jing was not happy. "All officials will write a report and submit their own suggestions when they go back."

(End of this chapter)