Established a thousand-year family from the end of Qin Dynasty

Chapter 625

Spring of the fifth year of Yan State 410 (625)
February
When Yan State was fighting everywhere in the Central Plains, persuading all the heroes in the world to deal with Li Tang.

Yan Guo's own backyard... caught fire!

The nobles of Yan belonged to Koryo launched another mutiny and overthrew their king.

After the new King of Goryeo ascended the throne, he cut off the tribute to Yan, and sent envoys to persuade Fuyu and Wuji to join the anti-Yan alliance.

The State of Yan launched the "Anti-Tang Alliance" in the Central Plains, and Koryo organized the "Anti-Yan Alliance" in the Northeast.

Although the Tang Dynasty in the Central Plains is a huge threat, it is still a long way from unifying the world, and it cannot pose a direct threat to the Yan Kingdom for the time being.

And Goryeo, which is close at hand, is on the side of the couch, which makes the nobles of Yan Kingdom feel uneasy.

"The Koreans are ungrateful and must be suppressed with thunder!"

"Notify the people of Buyeo and Wuji to carve up Goryeo!"

The Goryeo Kingdom was originally established by a group of Goguryeo nobles who kneeled and licked the Yan Kingdom. They betrayed their motherland, Goguryeo, built Goryeo on the ruins of Goguryeo, and paid tribute to the Yan Kingdom. But in the end, because the Yan Kingdom sucked blood too hard, they wanted to To rebel.

March
The army of Yan State had assembled in Woju Port, a total of [-] troops, including [-] servants, [-] imperial guards, [-] noble soldiers, and [-] guild soldiers.

Not only that, but also ten king cannons, two hundred iron bullets, and eight hundred stone bullets.

When the army arrived, the army of Yan State was responsible for killing the enemy, while the servant army, under the command of the craftsmen of Yan State, built roads, bridges, and castles.

The difficulty of attacking the many barbarians in the Northeast has never been in defeating their army, but in overcoming various difficult natural conditions.

Because there are many mountains and hills here, it is impossible to use ships to transport all kinds of materials needed for infrastructure construction. Therefore, along the way, the army of the Yan Kingdom had to build logging camps and quarries to check whether there were iron ore in the surrounding mountains and hills.

The difference between attacking the Northeast and attacking the Central Plains is that.

The Northeast is geographically closed. As long as it is conquered, it will basically belong to the Yan Kingdom, and it will be difficult for other forces to take it away. As for the Central Plains, even if it is defeated, it must also guard against enemies from the four directions of east, west, north, south, and follow-up investment. big.

Therefore, for the Central Plains, a place of the Four Wars, the national policy of the Yan State is not to directly occupy it, but to support the pro-Yan regime, so that it is convenient for the Yan State to suck blood from the Central Plains.

For the back garden of the Northeast, on the contrary, it is necessary to work steadily, step by step, and open up wasteland step by step, so as to continuously expand the scope of Yan State's rule.

There is a concept in Go, called the grass belly with golden horns and silver edges.

For the country of Yan, overseas is the golden horn, the northeast is the silver border, and the central plain is the grass belly.

Overseas lands have been opened up and developed, and it is basically impossible to be snatched away, so the development priority is very high, and the land in the Central Plains, even if it is conquered, will be taken away by a rising Central Plains dynasty in a few years. If it develops, it is also for the development of the Central Plains Dynasty. It is a wedding dress for others in vain, so it simply does not develop.

another year later
Autumn of the sixth year of Yan State 410 (626)
The Yan army paved the road while fighting. The forests along the way were cut down, and the swamp was drained and dried. The wet swamp was covered with a layer of dry rocky soil.

Five castle towns were built along the way, each of which can accommodate more than 200 people.

In order to encourage the local people of the Yan Kingdom to migrate to the newly opened territories to live and open up wasteland, the Yan Kingdom, as always, used life-long tax exemption as a temptation, and at the same time, life-long exemption from corvee.

As long as the people migrated to these newly opened territories, they would not have to bear taxes and corvee for the rest of their lives, and only from their second generation would they need to bear obligations to the imperial court.

Immigrants who newly opened up territories can enjoy various preferential policies, while residents living in the native country of Yan suffer from all kinds of exploitation.

What the court of Yan State wants is this kind of poor treatment. Through this kind of poor treatment, it can guide the people to voluntarily go to the desolate frontiers to reclaim wasteland for the country, instead of staying in the local area and over-exploiting.

It can be said that the national policy of the Yan State is completely reversed compared with that of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

The court of the Eastern Han Dynasty treated the people in the frontier very harshly. Although it treated the people in the Central Plains harshly, it was not as harsh as that in the frontier. As a result, for more than a hundred years in the Eastern Han Dynasty, the people in the frontier always tried their best to migrate to the Central Plains. The final result was that large areas in the frontier became Uninhabited wastelands, these uninhabited wastelands, naturally became the habitat of the Hu people.

The Hu people don't even need to attack the Han Dynasty, as long as the border Han people migrate to the Central Plains, they can occupy the fringe areas of the Han Dynasty without a single soldier.

Hetao, Hexi and other places gradually turned into barbarians under such a background. By the end of the Han Dynasty, there were no Han people in Hetao, and in Hexi, the number of barbarian people was actually more than that of Han people.

The original intention of the Eastern Han Dynasty court was to gather the population together, which would be easier to control and would not form a large separatist force in the border areas. In essence, it was to maintain centralization.

Yan State doesn't care about growing local power, but the nobles are afraid of central power growing. Therefore, the population of Yan State should be as dispersed as possible, and should not be excessively concentrated near the capital.

The five small towns are just the initial population. They will spontaneously reclaim farmland and capture serfs such as the nearby indigenous people. The Yan Kingdom court will also regularly send craftsmen and slaves to expand the town's area and immigrate more people.

In order to encourage immigrants to reclaim wasteland, the country of Yan abolished the upper limit of acres of land very early on. No matter who it is, they can own unlimited land, and land mergers are also free. If you accidentally go bankrupt and become a refugee, it is because you are lazy and don’t work hard. Such a person deserves to be sold into slavery.

In order to crack down on lazy citizens, the court of Yan State strictly prohibited alms, relief, and disaster relief.

Officials from all over the country need to report to Jiuqing if they want to provide disaster relief. Moreover, there is a high probability that Jiuqing will not pass it. Only when there is a risk of large-scale rebellion, Jiuqing may agree to disaster relief.

"If people go bankrupt and become refugees in natural disasters, then they need to rely on their hardworking hands to support themselves, instead of always thinking about letting the imperial court go to rescue them. People who have this kind of thinking are people without conscience. , I don’t know how to be grateful to the court!”

"Yan Kingdom, don't support idlers!"

"No matter who you are, you must create value, and you can't just lie on the side of the road every day, waiting for other people's relief and alms."

"All the givers and those who set up porridge sheds for relief are condoning the bad ethos of laziness. The Dayan court will severely punish such evil elements who corrupt the social atmosphere!"

In terms of not providing disaster relief, the two emperors of the Yan Kingdom and the Sui Empire were surprisingly consistent.

But the difference is that the Yan State does not provide relief, because it is worried that there will be lazy people in the country.

But Yang Jian didn't give relief, but simply couldn't bear the food.

(End of this chapter)