Great Warriors of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 1298
"Saint, if you allow or even encourage these tyrants to colonize, I'm afraid there will be trouble." Wei Zheng appeared in front of the emperor with some worries.

"What trouble do you think there will be?" Luo Cheng was reading the newspaper with a glass of wine.

"Of course, the main trouble is that these tyrants take this opportunity to go abroad to colonize and develop. When the sky is high and the land is far away, it will be difficult for the imperial court to manage it. Those colonies will inevitably become their private kingdoms. If the imperial court cannot manage them effectively, then they will be in these They can do whatever they want in the colonies, and they may even transfer property and population. This will undoubtedly lose our population and wealth, and will weaken our national strength.”

Luo Cheng put down the newspaper, nodded and said, "What you said is indeed reasonable, but we can't give up because of choking. You know, there are often records of fleeing people in history books, and generally fleeing households usually appear in the most powerful dynasty. When, old man, can you tell me why?"

Escaping households generally refers to abandoning one's residence and escaping.

In ancient times, the management of household registration was quite strict. Generally, population movement was strictly restricted, and people were prohibited from leaving the place of household registration at will.As for wanting to move to another county or even further away, that's even more impossible.

Household registration is an important basis for managing people in ancient times, and it is also the basis for taxation.

Only with household registration can there be population, and only with population can there be taxation and taxation.

Of course Wei Zheng is very clear about such problems.

"The problem of household evasion has always been a problem in ancient times, but why the problem of hukou escape is most important when the dynasty is prosperous is actually very simple. Around a hundred years ago, at this time, the dynasty entered its heyday, and its mergers often reached its peak, especially in the Central Plains. As the dynasty became more stable, the number of people multiplied and increased, but the land remained unchanged. Yes, coupled with the annexation of powerful nobles, this led to more and more landless people. However, most dynasties collected taxes based on land, and it didn’t matter if they had land or not. They will flee to border areas or mountainous areas and become people who have escaped from their nationality. Naturally, they do not have to bear the burden of school duties. When they arrive at the border areas, they can often cultivate wasteland and farm land , to keep the family fed and clothed.”

Luo Cheng nodded.

In ancient times, many dynasties generally strengthened the investigation of these fugitives who fled from their country of origin. Once found, they would be sent back to their original places, and they might even be punished and sentenced.

Of course, there are occasional other dispositions.

For example, during the time of Wu Zetian, people all over the world fled from their nationality and fled seriously, so Wu Zetian also decreed that for those who fled from their nationality, regardless of their host or guest, they should be resettled on the spot, and they would be admitted to re-naturalize in the locality and allowed to stay in the locality. The people who fled from the country also regained their status. They don’t need to be black households, and the fields they reclaimed are also recognized. Object.

"Old man, fleeing from nationality, in the final analysis, the people lost their land, but they still have to bear the tax of Keding, so they had no choice but to flee from their nationality. However, our dynasty has already taken precautions, so it was changed to a two-tax system. It is no longer the basis of taxation, but taxation based on households and acres of land, supplemented by low household taxes, and land tax. Therefore, even if the people really lose their land, they will not have to bear much tax. But even if People no longer have to pay land taxes, but it is difficult to guarantee their livelihood after losing their land. Therefore, our dynasty allows people to move, especially encourages people to move to border areas to settle down."

"For the imperial court, there is a lot of land, so the land tax remains the same. Therefore, whether the people move or not does not have a big impact. As for your claim that those colonies are far from easy to manage, I don't think so. The imperial court may let the Shibo Secretary Escrow, or build a special office to manage these colonies, tax them and manage them. The imperial court can even manage the fiefdoms of the princes, why can’t these colonies be managed? Although the colonists pioneered colonization, they have greater influence on the colonies. But it is impossible to make them independent kingdoms."

When the colonies are small, their influence is also small. Even if the imperial court cannot directly manage these small colonies, their influence and harm to the imperial court will be small. When they grow larger, the imperial court will inevitably send people to manage them, and may even station troops. Its power is of course in the hands of the court.

In the long run, Luo Cheng felt that it would be beneficial to encourage foreign colonization.

The current population of Daqin has exceeded 8000 million. Although there are more than 2000 million naturalized barbarians and slaves among them, there are still more than 5000 million Han people. This is due to the ability of the imperial court to check household registration. After coming out, there are no hermits or runaways. Even the Han slaves in the past have been released by the imperial court in recent years and moved to the frontier to grant them land.

Many bachelors are married by the court and form families. Some of them were impossible to get married in the past, but now they are all married.Even if the beggars were poor and disabled, when they arrived in the border areas, the imperial court would find a way to get them Hu Nu to marry them.

When a Hu girl married a Han husband, she was naturalized, and the children she gave birth to were naturally Han.

In this regard, there is no free choice. It is impossible for a Goguryeo woman to retain her Goguryeo identity after marrying a Han. What preferential treatment can other Hu Yi barbarians have.

Even the barbarians in the border areas have to change their lands and return to their native land, and find a way to naturalize them and turn them into Zhu Xia. How can it be possible for the blood of the Han people to turn into barbarians in the end?

In this case, don't say too much, it is almost not a problem for the population to exceed 30 million in [-] or [-] years.As far as the productivity of this era is concerned, in fact, it can only support a population of [-] million, and any more will be very dangerous.

If these newly conquered places in the frontier are developed, then perhaps tens of millions of people can be fed, but it is impossible to fully develop them in a short time.

Therefore, the population must be allowed to go out.

In addition to the development led by the imperial court, the people must also be involved.

Luo Cheng's arrangements actually imply that he is not at ease with the future development led by the imperial court. It's not that he doesn't believe in himself, but he is worried that after he leaves one day, Prince Jiawen will not be able to take over.

In the history of the Anshi Rebellion in the Tang Dynasty, the biggest root cause is that the Tang Dynasty opened up too fast, and the follow-up management of the court was out of touch.

In the era of Li Longji, the foreign pioneers had more victories than defeats, and the frontier army was very powerful. However, although the imperial court's foreign exploits were terrific, they could not keep up with the follow-up, or the rewards of the war were not proportional to the efforts. With the Anshi Rebellion.

The ability of the crown prince Jiawen is average, and Luo Cheng is worried that if he dies, the crown prince will control the Great Qin, and it will be difficult to maintain the current balance that is still extremely difficult under continuous development.That's why he hopes that in the future, the task of opening up to the outside world will be transferred from the hands of the imperial court to the private sector.

Mainly relying on private forces, it is good for the imperial court to hold the battle behind.

"To tell you the truth, I'm not worried about those tyrants colonizing foreign countries. Even if they really do not lose out in the future and become a country of their own, it's nothing. Anyway, they have the same roots as us, right? Daqin maybe 200 years, maybe 500 years, but it will be replaced by other dynasties in the end, I just hope that in the future, the people who overthrow the Great Qin and replace it will still be our Han family, not some Rongdi or barbarians!"

"In this way, at least the Great Qin Dynasty is dead, but the Han Dynasty is not dead, and the Chinese civilization can still be passed on from generation to generation, don't you think?"

Wei Zheng was stunned, he had never thought about which founding emperor would think about the demise of Dynasty Two 300 years later, this thought is too far away.

"Your Majesty never thought about letting Da Qin live forever?"

"Eternal generations? It would be great if it could last forever. After Qin Shihuang became emperor, he also thought about eternal generations. Therefore, he called the first emperor. His son is the second generation, and his grandson will be the third generation in the future. But in fact, Qin II died. The Zhou Dynasty There are 800 years in the world, but in fact, how many years will the emperor of Zhou really control the world?"

"The Han Dynasty is said to be 400 years old, but isn't there a new dynasty in the middle? I don't believe in eternal generations. It would be good if it can last for two to three hundred years. I only hope that Daqin will be able to make Huaxia Go further, don't be limited to the small circle in the Central Plains."

Not only colonization and development, Luo Cheng also encouraged the tyrants of the Central Plains to go to the newly developed Anton, Anxi, Yunnan and other places. Those places were newly conquered and there was a serious shortage of Han people.

Only Baekje, which Xu Shiji had just conquered, now has more than 300 million Baekje and Goguryeo people. The imperial court plans to eliminate one-third of the aborigines, and then relocate more than 100 million Han Chinese.Only in this way can it be possible for the Han people to gain a firm foothold there, but now it is not easy to gather 100 million people from the Central Plains.

And not only Anton needs immigration, but Yunnan, Guangnan, Liuqiu, Xishan and many other places are in great need of immigration.

The imperial court organized immigration, but many places are still poor and empty. The power of the imperial court alone is far from enough. In this regard, the power of the people must be used, especially the power of these powerful landlords and wealthy businessmen.

"In order to encourage and attract these people to invest in frontier real estate, I think that some attractive benefits can be promised to these tycoons. Let them work in the frontier government with the posts of foreign officials. If they are able to do things well and have excellent results in the assessment, they can be promoted to the top."

"Saint, in this way, I'm afraid that the power of the nobles, nobles, and tyrants will be further expanded."

"As long as the core basic disk of the Central Plains is guaranteed, I am not afraid."

(End of this chapter)