Three Kingdoms: Ancestors of the Han Dynasty

Chapter 884 Fujiang
Yanxi five years, the first month.

In the early morning, when the bell of the imperial court rang, all the officials filed in.The ministers of civil and military affairs greeted the emperor of Han Dynasty on the steps, and then took their seats according to their order after paying respects to the emperor and ministers.

At the beginning of the court meeting, Situ Feiyi presented the freshly released household registration numbers of all states and counties in the four years of Yanxi.

Liu Chan took the memorial from his attendant, and carefully read the statistics from Shangshutai.

In the 26th year of Jianxing (AD 248) when the Han Dynasty ruled the world, according to the data reported by the three kingdoms of Wei, Wu, and Yue, combined with the population of the Han Dynasty itself.According to Shangshutai's statistics, the national population is 220 million households, with a population of 110 million.

After five years of governance of the world by the Han Dynasty, policies such as light corvee and low tax, promotion of land administration, and release of slaves were adopted.At present, the number of household registrations of Dahan has soared to 320 households, and the population has increased by 600, which means that the total population has reached 25 people.

In five years, the population can increase sharply. In addition to the normal population growth, a large number of villagers, scholars, tribes, and slaves have been converted to agricultural registration and registered in the official records.

For example, in the state of Wei, the scholars, villagers, and common people belonged to different systems. At that time, when Cao Wei surrendered, the reported population was limited to the number of common people.

Or in the Wu and Yue countries, their civilian households belong to the civil registration, but there are still official households and trilogy.For example, Buzhi Buqu Wanhu, Zhuge Ke also has Buqu Wanhu, these tribes are equivalent to their food towns, and they are not included in the official statistics of Wu and Yue.

Liu Chan put down the memorandum and said with a smile: "In the past five years, the household registration has increased by one million households. You have worked so hard. The order will be passed on. Officials, big or small, can rest for one more day at Zhengdan this year. During these five years, everyone who is above or below the exam According to their achievements, they may be given money and food, or promoted to official positions, as a celebration of this achievement."

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Everyone bowed their hands in gratitude.

After everyone thanked them, Deng Ai came out with a wat board in hand and said, "Your servant, Deng Ai, is going to play."

"allow!"

"Reporting to Your Majesty, I follow His Majesty's edict to rectify the affairs of northern Xinjiang, which has initially achieved results; now the population is growing, the weather is smooth, and the grain and grass are accumulated, which can be used as military supplies; Xianbei in the east can be used as foreign aid; so I ask you to go north to restore Xinjiang. , Drive the army for my big man." Deng Ai said.

After the province was merged with the army, the tasks of the three generals were different. Huo Yi was in charge of the privy office, Deng Ai was in charge of the northern border restoration strategy, and Jiang Wei was the head of the lecture hall.

After all, although the great Han ruled the world, in fact, the land in northern Xinjiang was still occupied by the central Xianbei.For example, barbarians still exist in the four counties of Shuofang, Wuyuan, Yunzhong, and Dingxiang, as well as in Shangjun and the northern part of Xihe.

For example, in Bingzhou, the former border line of the Han and Hu was in Dingxiang County, but as the Eastern Han Dynasty was unfavorable to the Xianbei War, Dingxiang County was occupied by the Hu people.

During the period of Ke Bineng, the boundary line of Han and Hu retreated to Yanmen County; when Ke Bineng passed away, there was a fight in Xianbei, and Yanmen County was quiet, but the border line was still maintained in Yanmen County.

During the struggle for hegemony in the Han and Wei dynasties, Yuan Hong's distant relative, Suotou, led by Tuoba Liwei, sent troops to conquer the tribes of the Xianbei in the central region, trying to integrate all forces, but the Han and Hu still maintained the previous border.There was even a period of intimacy between Han and Hu. When the Han unified the world, Tuoba Liwei sent his eldest son to pay tribute to the Han.

Then the situation changed. After Liu Chan appointed Deng Ai to take full charge of northern Xinjiang affairs, Deng Ai took advantage of Tuoba Liwei before unifying the central Xianbei, pushed the border forward hundreds of miles, set the battle line in Xiangjun, and perfected the The defense system of Yanmen County was broken.

When the Han Dynasty consolidated the defense system of Yanmen County, Tuoba Liwei also completely controlled the central Xianbei, with more than [-] people under his command, and moved south to the nomadic Hetao area in Yunzhong.With the growth of Xianbei in the central part, the tribesmen were greedy for the wealth and honor of the Central Plains, and requested to plunder the border and start a war with the great Han.

Faced with the request of his subordinates, Tuoba Liwei's own strength cannot be compared with that of the Central Plains, so he rejected his subordinates' method of plundering the border people.And take the Xiongnu and Tadun as a lesson from the past, if they forcefully start a war with the big Han, there will be countless casualties.Therefore, instead of being an enemy of the big man, I also try to make friends with the big man, hoping that the big man will open a market in the frontier and communicate with each other.

When the request to switch the city was sent to Chang'an, at Deng Ai's suggestion, it was rejected by Liu Chan.After all, the Dahan and the central Xianbei exchange goods, which is purely an enemy.However, it is different from the eastern Xianbei. The eastern Xianbei has not yet been unified, while the central region has already been unified.If the central Xianbei is made strong due to the mutual market, and then the eastern Xianbei is annexed, there may be a second Ke Bineng, which will threaten the frontier of the Han Dynasty.

Therefore, the relationship between the Han Dynasty and the central Xianbei declined sharply. During Jiang Wei's expedition to Goguryeo, the Han Dynasty not only recovered its vitality, but also strengthened its relationship with the Eastern Xianbei Yuwen, Murong and other ministries.After Jiang Wei's victory from Goguryeo, Liu Chan appointed Wei Hu, the governor of Youzhou, as the captain of Xianbei to handle the relationship between Xianbei in the east.

After several years of recuperation, the Han Dynasty is also capable of launching a war against the central Xianbei in the Hetao area, recovering Shuofang, Wuyuan, Yunzhong and other Hetao counties that had fallen to Hu Township for nearly 80 years.

Liu Chan's eyes fell on Deng Ai, and asked: "Qing's proposal to restore Xinjiang is not impossible. I don't know how many soldiers and horses you want to recruit, and how many routes you want to divide, for the restoration of Xinjiang?"

"I ask you to recruit [-] infantry and cavalry, and divide the troops into three groups. The troops from the left route will send troops from Beidi County, and the soldiers from the northwest will go up the Great North River to attack Shuofang and Wuyuan. Sergeants, go out of the pass and go north, attack the enemy bandits in Dingxiang and Yunzhong, look for an opportunity to fight Tuoba Liwei decisively; the soldiers and horses from the right route go west from Baishan Mountain, send soldiers from Youzhou and the eastern Xianbei, and plunder the Xianbei tribes in the central part."

Deng Ai's expression was serious, and he said seriously: "Your Majesty can appoint the commander of the army in the middle route, and the troops on the left and right sides."

Liu Chan stroked his beard, looked at the generals who were eager to try, and appointed him: "You can let Jiang Huqi be the commander of the right army, and general Yuan Hong as the commander of the left army, and attack the central Xianbei together. The rest of the generals can be dispatched by the Privy Council. The same is true for Suo Fa's Eighth Commander."

Chen Dao, the former General of the Empress, died of illness, and Yuan Hong moved to the General of the Empress.

As soon as Liu Chan finished speaking, Liu Chen, the King of the North, stood up and said in a deep voice: "Your Majesty, I am the King of the North of the Han Dynasty, who guards the foreign domain for the Han Dynasty. Now I am going to fight Shuofang, and I will go out with the army. I think that the Han Dynasty will serve, how can I back down. "

"it is good!"

Seeing Liu Chen's arrogance, Liu Chan did not stop him, saying: "In this case, I will order you to go out with the army, under the command of the left army, and obey the general's dispatch."

"No!" Everyone responded.

Thanks to Liu Chan's settlement of the Western Xianbei in the early years, the Han Dynasty faced much less difficulty in this battle against the Central Xianbei. It can even be said that the Western Xianbei will be the main force of the Han Dynasty's conquest of the Central Xianbei.

For example, the Hu cavalry among the eight school lieutenants of the Han Dynasty came from the tribal soldiers of the National Highway in the northwest, and of course there were a small number of Goguryeo cavalry soldiers from the northeast.

As for the Yueqi, they were not the traditional Han army cavalry, and their main source of troops came from the Nanzhong clan, barbarians, and Jiangzuo cavalry.Instead of recruiting Nanzhong and Yangzhou as infantrymen, they sent them as cavalry pawns, mainly considering the relationship with the local upper-class children.

After all, although there are horses in Nanzhong, there are only a few people who can own good horses.Since ancient times, there have been many good riders in Jiangzuo, but they are also the children of landlords (①).

"May I ask Your Majesty, if my great Han regains the counties in Shuozhou's homeland, where will the people come from?" Xia Houxuan asked.

Liu Chan pondered a little, and said: "In addition to returning to the herdsmen, exempt from corvee, save taxes, recruit people from Northwest, Guanzhong, and Bingzhou to migrate, and enrich the border."

"I'm afraid there is a shortage!" Xia Houxuan asked.

"Let's discuss it for now!" Liu Chan hesitated for a while, and said evasively.

"promise!"

In fact, Liu Chan had already had an idea in his mind. He was going to move the gentry and tyrants who rebelled because of the Central Plains to live in northern Xinjiang to enrich the population.But he has not yet started to spend the fields in the Central Plains, Liu Chan is afraid that if he speaks out immediately, he will startle the snake.
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Note ①: "Three Kingdoms: Sun Ce Biography": "Shu Biao Ce is the captain of Zhechong, the general who killed the bandits, with more than a thousand soldiers and wealth, dozens of horses, and hundreds of guests who are willing to follow."

ps; There may not be many updates recently, and I am preparing for a new book.When the book is finished, a new book will be published.

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