Man Tanghong

Chapter 779 Simple and rude family planning
"My dear friends, are you willing to do this since ancient times with this king?!"

Li Yuanji saw that the emotions of Li Shentong and others had been mobilized, so he straightened his back and stood behind the case to ask questions.

Li Shentong, Li Xiaogong and other military officials stood up together, quickly walked to the hall, knelt down on one knee, and solemnly declared: "I am willing to go through fire and water for your highness, and I will die!"

Seeing this, Li Gang, Pei Ju and other civil servants hesitated for a while, and Li Gang took the lead, and quickly walked to the hall, prostrated themselves on the ground, and solemnly declared, "The ministers are willing to serve His Highness, do their best, and die!"

"it is good!"

Li Yuanji nodded in satisfaction, and said in a loud voice: "I hope you will remember your promise. As long as you keep your promise, the king will never let you down!"

Li Shentong and the others all lowered their heads and said loudly: "I will swear to the death to guard my promise!"

Li Yuanji nodded again in satisfaction, and continued: "Everything that was said in Wude Hall today is confidential, I don't want you to spread it, but I hope you will keep it in mind.

If someone does not follow my order and leaks half a sentence of what I said today, he will be executed without mercy! "

"Here!"

Li Shentong and others bowed their heads again and agreed.

Li Yuanji nodded, said nothing more, put his hands on his back and left the front hall of Wude Hall.

"Brother Wen Ji, I will leave it to your civil servants to fill up the Luoyang granary, and leave it to our military officials to make our Tang Dingkou reach 300 million households, how about it?"

Li Shentong took the initiative to talk to Li Gang while the crowd was still there.

Wen Ji is Li Gang's character.

According to his age, Li Shentong should be called Li Gang's uncle, because Li Gang is almost 20 years older than him, and he would not insult his identity by calling him an uncle.

However, Li Gang is a minister, and has nothing to do with Li Tang's clan. As a king, he is also the prince of the county, and he is also the head of the military officials. To call Li Gang "Brother Wen Ji" is already bowing his head.

Calling him Uncle would be a bit of a compliment to Li Gang.

Even if he is willing, all the military officials are not willing, not to mention that among the military officials there are some who are about the same age as Li Gang or older than Li Gang.

As the head of the military officials, he represents all the military officials. If he bows to the head of a civil servant, he will be looked down upon by all his colleagues.

Li Gang was about to leave, was about to go back to the three provinces, and discussed with Pei Ju, Xiao Yu, Chen Shuda, Wang Gui and others how to supervise Ren Gui and Yuezhou Governor's building a city in Yuezhou and promoting rice. Hearing Li Shentong's words, He paused for a moment, was slightly stunned, and then slightly cupped his hands and said, "It is our duty to collect food for the court and for the army to go out. Even if His Royal Highness Huai'an doesn't say it, we will do it."

Li Shentong laughed and said, "That's good, then it's settled."

Li Gang did not express his opinion in a hurry, but asked instead: "I don't know how His Royal Highness King Huai'an is going to bring a group of military officials to restore my Dingkou in the Tang Dynasty?"

What Li Gang said here is very level, using the word "recovery" instead of strengthening.

Because in the former Sui Dynasty, the population of the Central Plains had reached more than 3000 million. After more than ten years of war, the population has withered to the present point.

The Tang Dynasty succeeded the former Sui Dynasty and established itself, so it is natural to talk about recovery in terms of population.

Although it is a bit sloppy to say this, the meaning it represents is very important.

If the Great Tang admitted that it succeeded the former Sui Dynasty, then during the unification war, all the territory occupied by the former Sui Dynasty would be included in the recovery of the Great Tang.

The vassals owned by the former Sui Dynasty were also included in the conquest of the Tang Dynasty.

Whether the Tang Dynasty raised troops against any place that the former Sui had occupied or recognized, it was a war of unification, not a war of aggression.

In righteousness, Datang is tenable.

Although the military officials of the Tang Dynasty did not pay attention to this, the civil servants did, as did the sages of the folk, and so did the scholars in the scholarly community.

As long as Datang is able to stand up for righteousness, then the sages in the countryside and the scholars in the shilin can be used by Datang.

What's more, some people who complained about the Li family's bloodline and had ulterior motives couldn't take advantage of the opportunity to stir up trouble when the Tang Dynasty was raising troops.

Faced with Li Gang's question, Li Shentong shouted without hesitation: "Naturally, let our non-garrison soldiers from all over the Tang Dynasty return to their hometowns, marry wives and have children as soon as possible.

And tell them that one will be promoted to Corporal Chief, two will be promoted to Shichang, and three will be promoted to Team Leader.

I believe that there must be a brave man under the reward. "

Li Gang opened his mouth involuntarily, staring at Li Shentong in astonishment, not knowing what to say.

Li Shentong's method is really simple and rude.

However, there is no war in the Tang Dynasty right now, and it will not delay things if the soldiers who are not guarding the border return to their hometowns to marry wives and have children.

Hundreds of thousands of soldiers all returned to their villages at one go, married wives and had children, and the population of each place would inevitably increase.

It's just that following Li Shentong's method to implement it can't maximize the advantages of this matter.

Because it takes time for soldiers to return home, it takes time to marry a wife and have children, and it takes time to make babies, especially multiple babies.

No one knows when Li Yuanji will launch an attack on Turkic and Tuyuhun, so this time should not be wasted.

After thinking about it for a while, Li Gang pondered and said: "His Royal Highness Huai'an, what do you think of this? I asked the people from the Shangshu Province to pass orders to various places, and let the governors, Sima, and long history of each place follow the military status, Citizenship, the unmarried soldiers in the general are selected first, and they are given official assignments, and when they return to their hometowns, there is no need to wait, and they can directly marry the official wives and enter the bridal chamber."

Li Shentong's eyes lit up, clapped his hands and shouted: "This is good! This is good!"

At this time, Chen Shuda leaned forward with a look of hesitation and said, "When the soldiers have not yet returned to their hometowns, they are forced to be appointed as officials. If they are not satisfied with their newly married wives, will there be trouble?"

"Leave them alone?"

Li Shentong squinted and shouted, and then said domineeringly: "Let's do it like this, I don't think they dare to make trouble?!"

Chen Shuda opened his mouth, shook his head and did not speak again.

Shi Wanbao took the opportunity to make a crooked idea from the side: "I think, for those who are above the rank and have military merits, and have a wife like a wife, it is best that the husband and the parents-in-law are dead, and they are still married." with a child.

Anyway, they have military merits and acquired a lot of land, so they can afford to support them. "

Datang rewarded military merits, in addition to increasing officials and ranks, there were also money and land.

However, Datang now has the most unowned land, so the rewards for soldiers are mainly land.

Those who are in the squadron and above the squadron basically have some credit, so the land they get can support some idlers in addition to supporting their families.

Therefore, it will not be a burden for them to provide them with a house as a wife and another child.

Xiao Yu was stunned by Shi Wanbao's crooked idea, "This...is this not in line with etiquette?"

Wang Gui, Wei Zheng and others followed suit.

Although Tang Ru said what his wife said, it was all privately passed on by the rich and powerful, and the imperial court did not officially recognize it, and there were no relevant regulations in the imperial court's laws.

The most important thing is that in the folk world, this kind of identity that can threaten the identity of the main wife is not allowed to appear.

So this is just a special status derived from the concubines of some powerful families. Because of the strength of their mother's family, they faintly fight against the main wife in separate courts, and even overwhelm the main wife.

If this special identity is put on the bright side, it will destroy the etiquette.

As the guardians of etiquette and law in the Tang Dynasty, Xiao Yu, Wang Gui, Wei Zheng and others dare not agree with Shi Wanbao's crooked idea.

When Shi Wanbao heard Xiao Yu's words, he waved his hands in disdain and said, "What time is this, and you still care about etiquette? Don't you know what's going on in the north of Duji Road, Hebei Road, and Guannei Road?

If you don’t betroth those women whose husbands and parents-in-law are dead, and who live with only one child, how will you let them live? "

Xiao Yu opened his mouth in astonishment, not knowing how to refute Shi Wanbao.

He is one of the three prime ministers of the Tang Dynasty, and his understanding of the local areas of the Tang Dynasty is far deeper than that of Shi Wanbao.

He knew what Shi Wanbao was talking about in the places north of Duji Road, Hebei Road, and Guannei Road.

Because these places have experienced many wars before and after, almost all the men have died, and the rest are all women and children.

Although the imperial court has issued corresponding decrees to make every effort to accommodate these women and children.

But after all, this is an era when men are in power. A family without a man is not considered a family at all.

Women with children, even with the court's care, it is very difficult to live in peace and stability.

So the imperial court had to find a support for them.

But after the war, there are a lot of yellow-flowered girls left behind, and there are too few men, and there are too many yellow-flowered girls to choose. Who wants to marry a woman with a oil bottle?
Maybe one or two of these women will be picked by others because of their outstanding looks, but most of them are ordinary-looking and cannot be compared with the golden girls.

More importantly, the vast majority of males, whether in the military or civilians, are unwilling to leave their homeland.

Therefore, even if the imperial court wanted to forcibly fortify and assign officials, they could not find anyone in the local area.

According to documents written by Ma Zhou when he was an official in Hebei Province, the adult men in Hebei Province now have four or five wives and concubines, and the most exaggerated number is as many as twenty or thirty.

Just like this, there are still a large number of widowed women and children in Hebei Province lingering in the houses distributed to them by the imperial court.

So although Shi Wanbao's crooked idea is very crooked and unethical, it can really solve the problem, and it is a big problem.

"It's fine if you're my wife, it's not in accordance with the etiquette, and this trend can't grow. Why don't you share a house or live together?"

Li Gang felt that what Shi Wanbao and Xiao Yu said made sense, and after stroking his beard and pondering for a while, he gave his own suggestion.

Xiao Yu, Shi Wanbao and the others looked at Li Gang blankly.

Xiao Yu couldn't help but said: "What is a shared house, what is a double residence?"

(End of this chapter)