Great Warriors of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 960

In order to express his support for Cunxiao, Luo Cheng expressly expressed that he would choose three hundred young righteous children from the camps of righteous children in various places, hand them over to Cunxiao as an attendant in the tent, and give him six hundred horses to serve as the kingdom's pro-army. He also picked out 300 people who conspired against him this time and let Cunxiao take them away. These people will not be able to return them when they live in Lijiang. They can be assigned to some official positions in the Lijiang Kingdom and let them help Cunxiao develop fiefdoms.

"As for the closure of households, I can only grant you a quota of [-] households, and you can recruit yourself."

The fourth child said, "That's too stingy. When the third child went to Xihai, you directly recruited many people to him. Now that I'm here, why don't you give any family?"

"The third child went to Xihai, and I didn't give Yi'er an account as a guard."

If all the feudal lords had to confiscate their households, even after the last reduction of nobles and this rebellion, the imperial court would still have more than 700 actual feudal titles, with an average of one hundred nobles, that would be 10,000 households. If there were more At this point, there will be [-]+ hundreds of thousands of households. With such a large population, the court also has a headache.

We can only let the feudal lords find their own way to recruit and pay for the recruitment. In this way, the court will save money for the settlement expenses and travel expenses. The proletarians in the Central Plains were either slaves or poorer.

This prevents the imperial court from directly enlisting the common people to be feudal lords and harming the power of the country.

This account is not good enough to calculate, and the population is still too small.

The imperial court also tried its best to increase the population. After all, since the imperial court formulated the national policy of large-scale development, it meant a large number of immigrants to the frontier, and the feudal lords had to steal a lot of population.

Even though the imperial court issued an edict to free a large number of officials and slaves from the Han Dynasty, and allowed those private Han slaves to redeem their freedom, the situation is still not optimistic.

A large number of immigration to the frontier has brought the benefits of opening up wasteland and strengthening the frontier, and it has also allowed the people in the Central Plains to be allocated more fields, but another problem is that a large number of people from the Central Plains have left the Central Plains, and many people have become self-employed farmers. Although they still have a lot of fields in their hands, there is a serious shortage of farmers.

Many of the tenants who used to farm the fields have become self-cultivators. They are busy cultivating their new land, so how can they have time to cultivate the landlords?

However, the imperial court issued a law. On the one hand, it is a land restriction order, and on the other hand, it stipulates that the land owned by the landlords must not be abandoned, otherwise the land tax will be doubled. If it is abandoned continuously, it may be forced to be returned to the government.

Under such a law, the current landlords are also very headache.

The only thing left for them is to buy more slaves and cattle and horses, but now the imperial court is expanding the population and implementing a policy of redemption, release, immigration, immigration, and land grants for slaves of Han nationality, which has caused many people to complain.

Although for many dignitaries and officials, the output of the land does not actually occupy much of their wealth, it is impossible for no one to farm the land.

Fortunately, although the imperial court imposed various restrictions on slaves of Han nationality, it did not restrict the purchase and ownership of slaves.Ever since, the slave market is booming in various parts of the Central Plains, and the slave business in Qingdao, Donglai, Lushun, Seoul and other ports is very hot.

But it is still in short supply.

Nowadays, people are competing for population everywhere. The imperial court is competing for population to open up wasteland and colonize real borders.

It is precisely because of these needs that the imperial court now has extremely strict management of Buddhism and Taoism, forcing a large number of monks to return to the secular world, prohibiting women under the age of 40 from becoming monks, and prohibiting young and strong men from becoming monks.

In addition, it is strictly stipulated that civilians without official titles are strictly prohibited from taking concubines, and unless their wives are unborn, they must wait until they are 40 years old before they can take concubines.

There are even new regulations that require women to be fined if they exceed unmarried ones.And included in the official unified registration, rationed by the official media, if there is no partner introduced by the official media five times, they will be forced to match and get married.

On the other hand, it was the imperial court that strictly prohibited behaviors such as drowning and abandoning babies. They must be raised after giving birth, and drowning a baby is a felony.

For those unable to support them, the government should provide relief and assistance.Orphans and abandoned babies are adopted by the court's orphanage.

The emperor didn't feel sorry for giving Cunxiao a fief of six hundred miles. After all, it is not yet the place of the imperial court. If Cunxiao can control it and establish a stable rule, there will be no harm to the imperial court.The fiefdom of six hundred miles will be granted to Cunxiao's descendants in the future, and it will become more and more small fiefdoms, which will hardly pose any threat to the imperial court. On the contrary, as a fiefdom of the clan, it will naturally be able to screen the feudal clan royalty.

With 2 households closed, a population of [-] or [-] was obtained. Luo Cheng was reluctant to give it, so he could only give a quota, and Cunxiao had to figure out a way by himself.

"Where's Xiao Liufeng?" the fourth child asked.

Luo Cheng shook his head.

Until now, the imperial court has officially conferred the titles of the two clan kings, and the other clans and meritorious officials with different surnames have not yet been conferred.

This needs to be done slowly.

Anyway, the promise will not change. At that time, the corresponding fiefs will be allocated according to the titles of the marquises, and then the titles will be changed according to the place names.

"Xiao Liu, where do you want to go?" Luo Cheng asked with a smile.

Xiao Liu was very indifferent, "I don't know, I will go wherever the imperial brother is entrusted."

"Hahaha, these words are detached, so do you like the south or the north?"

"It's better to get used to the north." Shi Dao said, after all, the fighting chief was in Shandong, and in the past ten years, he basically fought outside the pass, so he had already adapted to the weather in the north.

"Okay, I'll find you a good piece of land on the Mohe people's side outside the pass later, and give it to you." Luo Cheng responded with a smile.

Shi Xin really doesn't care much about where the seal is.

He is more concerned about inheritance.

"Third brother is fighting in Qinghai, okay? I heard that Western Turks and Tubo have sent troops? Do you want to send troops for reinforcements? I am willing to go."

The dispatch of troops from the Western Turks was indeed beyond the court's expectations.

Originally, the current imperial court was unwilling to have any conflicts with the Western Turks, although in Luo Cheng's future plan, after the Central Plains were pacified, he would definitely march into the Western Regions and open up the Silk Road.

But for now, we still have to rest and recuperate.

But Tuyuhun refused to surrender, and Tang Jian was a man who was eager to make contributions, so there was a drama about Daqin Ban Dingyuan, but no matter what happened, the court could only deal with the aftermath.

It is impossible to allow Tuyuhun to turn around.

Luo Cheng only gave Siye more than [-] troops, and he also wanted to limit the war to a small area and fight a limited regional war.But who would have expected that when Western Turks came, so did Tubo.

Now the imperial court is only looking at the Western Turks, no one takes Tubo seriously, but Luo Cheng attaches great importance to Tubo who sent troops to the Central Plains for the first time to provoke.

He knew very well that with the sending of troops from Western Turks and Tubo, the war had escalated.

(End of this chapter)