Great Warriors of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 785 Great Qin Kaiyuan

Xu Shiji said to Li Jing somewhat complacently, "Kill Yuan Taizuo, Gao Yanshou, Gao Huizhen, etc., and then sell all these Goguryeo people to the Central Plains as slaves. From now on, Xuantu County will completely become the territory of our Han family. With a population of nearly 200 million, this is really a big profit.”

Li Jing still maintained a calm smile. Although many civil officials in the court shouted that they were not benevolent, many people thought that Yuan Taizuo Gao Yanshou and others should be killed. As long as the rest of the Goguryeo people belong to them, they will also be my Han family sons. people.Some scholars even said that Yuan Taizuo should not be killed at all, because he was right, he had long been attached to the court, and this time he helped to suppress the rebellious Goguryeo people.

But Li Jing knew clearly that there are less than 200 million Han people in the land outside the customs, and what about the Goguryeo people? Although the population loss has been serious in recent years, many people died in battle, more people were captured as slaves, and many were sold to the Central Plains. There are still many who fled to Baekje, Silla and other places, and some fled to Mohe, but after all, the country has been established for 700 years.

Earlier, there were several million people in Goguryeo's household registration, and this is not counting the slaves who did not have household registration.So this time in Xuantu County alone, more than 200 million people were captured.

As long as you walk on two legs, it doesn't matter if you are a man, a woman, an adult, a child, an old man or a woman, no matter whether you are an aristocrat, an official, a landlord, a commoner or a slave, now they only have one status left on Li Jing's roster, slave.

All their property, land, houses, livestock, money and silk became Li Jing's spoils of war.

"I heard that the soldiers and soldiers of each town will get some Goguryeo slaves this time, at least one, and there may be several more, and some heroes and soldiers may have more than a dozen. The rest will be sold to merchants as commodities. , There are still many generals who will serve as official slaves, arranged to be slaves in various workshops, or to be slaves in official farmland."

It is quite rare to enslave millions of people at once.

This time, not only the 200 million Goguryeo people in Xuanju County were enslaved, but even the one million Goguryeo people in Fuyuchuan, as well as those Goguryeo people who had already obtained status in Liaodong and other places, were also implicated this time and all became slaves.

Luo Cheng has more than 100 soldiers under his command, and the plan is to reward them with [-] million Koguryo slaves to replace Qianbo. After all, the imperial court doesn't have much money now.

The other 200 million will be sold for sale. Merchants, nobles, landlords, gentry, and rich people can buy them, whether they are farming or ordering them.

The remaining millions will be used as official slaves in official workshops, mines, and official fields.

There are many people who object to this matter, including Wei Zheng, Fang Xuanling, and Du Ruhui. However, the reason for their objection is not that they are so cruel and inhumane, but that these people should be designated as registered households of the imperial court, and granted In this way, they can become subjects of the imperial court and can pay rent, tax and service to the imperial court.

And once they are all demoted to slaves, it is a one-time income. In the future, these people will be slaves. They are not subjects of the imperial court in essence. It is a bad thing, and it will make the nobles more powerful.

But Luo Cheng's reason for convincing them is very simple, that is, under the new two-tax system, the traditional method of taxation based on Ding has been changed, and now the main taxation method is based on the amount of land and property .

At the same time, under the Two Taxes Law, the government and the people pay taxes together, and those who are officials also have to pay taxes, but they are exempt from military service.In this way, Luo Chengcai doesn't care how many slaves there are in your family, it's up to you to use more slaves if you have money, but if you have more money, you have to pay taxes.

He has even been brewing, like the tax on vehicles and ships, to tax the ownership of slaves.

As for the fact that millions of Goguryeo people are registered households, not only taxation, but also other benefits to the court, Luo Cheng thinks that this is not as good as a hidden danger in the future.

During the Han and Wei Dynasties, a large number of Hu people were moved inland, and the result became the later Wu Hu Luan Hua.

Therefore, for Goguryeo, which has been established for more than [-] years, has a population base of several million, and can reach more than [-]% of the population of Han people in the Central Plains, it must be treated with extreme caution.

Otherwise, maybe one day Liaodong will change again.

Just once and for all.

"I will deal with the ruthless people alone, and I will bear the blame alone, but it will not make future generations worry about it."

What's more, it's not just a few million people who have been taken away, but also countless land and money. If these are left to the Goguryeo people, how can there be so much land for the people who migrated from the Central Plains.

Even if these Goguryeo people were moved to the Central Plains, how could the Central Plains have so much land to house them.

Sometimes, it's just so cruel.

The Sui Dynasty established the country with the land equalization system and the military system. At the beginning of the founding of the country, it was prosperous, but it was chaotic after only 30 years. In fact, it was after the population surged, and the land was insufficient, so the land equalization system could not be implemented. Naturally, there are problems with the tax system.

The people can't get the land and the tax is so heavy, so it's a sad day. When meeting Yang Guang who loves to make troubles, if he has the opportunity, the world will naturally be in chaos.

Therefore, although Luo Cheng is still implementing the land equalization system, the tax system has been changed to a two-tax system, and it is no longer a tax without industry and commerce.

To appease the people in the Central Plains and let them live and work in peace and contentment, they must first be given fields so that they can live on.

It is simply impossible for everyone to have a hundred acres of land.

Just like when the Zhongwu Army was in Liaodong before, they only allowed the Zhongwu Army to become landlords. As for the other Han refugees, they were tenant farmers, while the Goguryeo people were serfs. Only such a pyramid structure could support it.

Otherwise, everyone is a landlord and owner-peasant, so how can there be so much land to grant?Do you have to have job fields, title fields, public lands, school fields, pastures, etc.?
We must know that when the population was the largest in the Sui Dynasty, the official household registration had already reached 890 million households, with a population of nearly 5000 million. This is only the registered population on the household registration, excluding slaves, priests, monks and prostitutes.If, according to this population, every census was provided with a full amount of land, then the Sui Dynasty would have billions of mu of land.

But even in later generations, the country's arable land is only more than a billion mu.

In the Tang Dynasty, the cultivated land was only more than 8 million mu, and in the Song Dynasty, it was only more than 5 million mu. Although the Tang and Song mu were different, the mu in Tang and Song was less than the mu in later generations, which means that the cultivated land in ancient times was actually even less.

And this also shows that it is impossible for everyone to grant a full amount of land.

In the past, Luo Cheng's family, five men and two middle-aged men, only had a few tens of acres of land. After paying the rent and adjustment, they could barely live. If there was a famine or the apportionment from the higher-ups, famine would be brought on that day.

"Tuyuhun can be said to be a lesson, rebelling against impermanence, and finally the imperial court destroyed Tuyuhun and set up counties, but in the end, the roots have not changed. There are still Tuyuhun, Qiangdi and other tribes, so it is still an uncontrollable chaos. Land, now the lord has directly destroyed Goguryeo and completely destroyed the country, which is also a good thing."

At this time, a cavalry came.

He brought the emperor's edict.

"Decree of the Great Qin Emperor!"

The emperor conferred the title of Luo Shixin as the King of Zhao, and granted him the Jiedu envoy of Andong Road, the left-behind left-behind in Tokyo and the Zuo Shence military envoy.

Li Jing was granted the title of Duke of the State of Wei, Minister of the Ministry of War, and recalled to Beijing to assist the government.

Song Laosheng was granted the title of Song Guogong, and the deputy envoy of Jiedu was appointed as the envoy of Youshence Army and the prefect of Lelang.

Xu Shiji was granted the title of Duke of England, and he was granted the title of Jiedu staff officer, deputy envoy of Zuo Shence Army and prefect of western Liaoning.

Li Jing led a group of generals and schools to take over the decree. In addition to conferring these four officials and titles, the emperor also rewarded the officers and men of the two armies in Anton with money and silk. He also issued a special decree that each of the officers and men of the Shence Army should be awarded Goguryeo. Two young and strong slaves.

All officers will be promoted to the first rank of Sanguan, and all soldiers will be awarded one rank of honor.

"Has His Highness ascended the throne yet?" Xu Shiji asked.

"Well, on the first day of September, Your Majesty changed Fanyang Mansion to Beijing and Linshuo Palace to the Forbidden Palace. He formally accepted the abdication of Sui Emperor Yang Hao in the Forbidden Palace in Beijing. He named the country Daqin and changed it to Yuan Kaiyuan. Year."

(End of this chapter)