Ji Han Da Sima

Chapter 368 Southern Han Household Registration

Twenty years after Jian'an, spring, Wuhan.

In the Zhijiang Marquis Mansion, Huo Jun browsed the letters sent by Mi Fang from Nanzhong.

In the letter, Mi Fang thanked Huo Jun for introducing him to Nanzhong as a good place. She said that although Nanzhong is full of snakes and insects and has many mountains, Nanzhong is a place with great potential.

The barbarians and Han people in southern China have been intermarried with each other for several generations, forming a dense network of relationships. In addition, the unfamiliar terrain makes it difficult for outsiders to govern deeply. To govern Nanzhong, we can only rely on local talents.

The southerners live in a chaotic environment and have no fear of the prefecture officials. At present, they dare not rebel openly just because of Liu Bei's strong military strength. Of course, it is also inseparable from the appeasement and trade policies adopted by Mi Fangjin.

Mi Fang believes that if you want to govern Nanzhong in depth, it will be difficult without using weapons. After all, the prefect's appointment depends on the face of local snakes.

After talking about the problems of going to Nanjing Middle School, Mi Fang talked about the business of Nanjing Middle School again, in order to thank Huo Jun for his recommendation. Mi Fang presented ten beautiful slaves, sixteen strong male servants, five good horses, and fifteen cattle to show some sincerity.

"Husband, Mrs. Mi gave me so many gifts on the pretext of my birthday yesterday, should I accept them?" Bu Lianshi asked.

Putting down the letter, Huo Jun said with a smile: "Zifang's wishes, accept it for now!"

"promise!"

Mi Fang used most of her profits to take care of others. Let cronies enter Wuhan and express their feelings more or less to core officials such as Huo Jun, Fazheng, Jian Yong, Sun Qian, and Pang Tong under different names.

He even asked Liu Bei about it. Previously, Mi Fang formed a caravan, and he collected 30% of the tax from it in the name of the Nanzhong Governor's Office. This month Mi Fang sent most of last year's business taxes to Liu Bei in the name of paying taxes to Nanzhong.

Liu Bei was very happy about Mi Fang's behavior. He thought that running Nanzhong would be a loss-making business, but Mi Fang gave him a surprise.

"what!"

Trainer Bu was surprised and looked at the dark green Sichuan brocade embroidered with butterfly patterns in his hand.

"what happened?"

Huo Jun stood up from the couch, walked behind Trainer Bu, put his arms around the slender and voluptuous waist, and lightly rubbed his wife's broken hair.

Master Bu put the Shu brocade under the light and exclaimed: "Husband, the butterflies on this Shu brocade are lifelike. Their wings change colors under the bright light. They should be considered top-quality silk brocades, not as good as Xiangyi weavings!"

Huo Jun looked at the butterfly, and saw that the butterfly was spun from yellow silk. Under the jumping fire lamp, its wings seemed to be flying illusoryly, and its color was vaguely changing.

"What a masterpiece!"

The well-informed Huo Jun praised the Shu brocade and sighed: "Kong Ming said that the official camp of Shu brocade will be prosperous. Looking at it today, it turns out that it is true."

In the past year or so, Shu brocade has been mentioned more and more often by powerful people and nobles.

Zhuge Liang officially ran Shu Brocade, selected the most top skilled craftsmen from Shu, innovated Shu Brocade technology, hired prestigious merchants in Shu to trade, and Zhuge Liang personally worked on it, which greatly changed the style of Shu Brocade.

Shu Brocade has become high-end and popularized. High-end, using high-quality silk and advanced craftsmanship to produce exquisite Shu brocade, specially for the enjoyment of nobles and ministers; popularization, using middle and lower-grade silk, making Shu brocade of poor quality but with great output.

Among them, Huo Jun's suggestions were adopted and labeled brand differentiation. The high-end Sichuan brocade with multi-color warp flowers is called Jingjin, which is a unique craft of Sichuan brocade; the Sichuan brocade that popularizes the weft and warp weaving that is not unique to Bashu is called Wei brocade.

Distinguished between Jing brocade and Wei brocade, the sales of Shu brocade are becoming increasingly popular, while the sales of Xiangyi weaving in the Central Plains are getting worse and worse, with fewer and fewer people buying it.

Master Bu admired the Shu brocade for a moment, gestured a few times, and said, "This summer is coming, and my husband also needs to buy some new summer clothes. This Shu brocade is just right. I and the Qiao sisters will make some clothes for my husband."

"Madam is the best to me!"

Huo Jun kissed the Koubu trainer's face gently and said in that greasy voice.

Trainer Bu raised his head slightly and said proudly: "If I'm not good to you, who will be good to you!"

"Ha ha!"

Huo Jun laughed happily a few times. He had become famous, had a beautiful wife and concubines, and had children. He was already a winner in life.

The eldest son Huo Yi and the second son Huo Chang; the eldest daughter Huo Jie and the second daughter Huo Wen. Including his adopted son Huo Fan, Huo Jun now has three sons and two daughters.

As for Liu Bei, he rarely went out in Wuhan in recent years, and his life became stable. In addition to Liu Chan, he also gave birth to three sons, plus his adopted son Liu Feng, Liu Bei had five sons, far more than in history.

Family affairs need to be managed, as well as state affairs.

Huo Jun lingered at home for a while, and finally Liu Bei called him to the palace.

In the pavilion, Liu Bei, Jian Yong and Huo Jun were drinking tea. After arriving in the south for more than ten years, Liu Beigai may have been assimilated by the southerners and gradually fell in love with the habit of drinking tea.

Seeing Liu Bei's happy expression, Jian Yong showed an uncontrollable smile and asked curiously: "Why is my lord so happy today? Could it be that something good is about to happen?"

Huo Jun poured a cup of tea for Liu Bei and said with a smile: "The household registration of the new population of Bashu has been sent. There are 113,400 households in Liangzhou and 149,300 households in Yizhou. The total number is 262,000. There are seven hundred households, and the number of people is about 1.3 million."

"This does not include the household registration of Nanzhong counties. If the people of Nanzhong are combined, the population of Bashu will be no less than 1.6 million. Now that Bashu has been annexed, the national power will be greatly increased, and His Highness will naturally be happy." Population data of the southern states during the Eastern Han Dynasty Distortion is particularly severe.

Since the Eastern Han Dynasty used the population under its rule as assessment data, counties and counties in barbarian areas, in order to claim credit, lied a lot about the number of barbarians who could not pay taxes.

Yongchang County is located in Baoshan City, Yunnan Province, and its jurisdiction covers the rest of northern Myanmar. In such a desolate area, the county governor reported a household registration of two million people.

In the Bajun area of ​​Yizhou, there may be a floating gap of 800,000 people in ten years.

At that time, the registered population of Yizhou was 700 million. Looking at the population numbers of Yongchang County and Bajun, how can anyone believe it?

Therefore, under the auspices of Zhuge Liang, the population data of Jingzhou and Yangzhou were rechecked. Now Bashu has rechecked the population data of Yizhou.

What is the population data of Jing, Yang and Xu prefectures?

In previous verifications, the household registration in the three states was about 600,000, and the population was over 3 million.

If we can completely capture Jiaozhou and Nanzhong, and deeply control the counties of Jiaoling and Nanzhong, including Yi and Liangzhou, there should be about five million people who can pay taxes for Liu Bei.

As for the Han Yi data in the entire south, Huo Jun really didn't know.

Liu Bei sipped the tea and sighed slightly: "Although there are millions of people in the mouth and 180,000 soldiers, they are still insufficient compared with the Central Plains under Cao Cao's rule. According to Kong Ming's words, the world is divided into three parts, and Cao Cao gets it. There are two of them, and I have one of them. And among them, Nanzhong and Jiaozhou have not yet been owned by Gu. I don’t know when it will be possible to revive the Han Dynasty!"

After these few battles with Cao Wei, they achieved a lot of results. In fact, most of them took advantage of the geographical advantages, or took advantage of Cao Cao's army to stay away, so as to achieve victory.

For example, in the Battle of Chrysostom, Huo Jun used water warfare, geographical advantages, fire attacks, and night attacks to massively defeat Cao Cao.

In the Battle of Hefei, Huo Jun took advantage of Cao Cao's distance from the Yangtze River and Huaihe River, and used water battles to encircle points for reinforcements and attack them separately.

During the Battle of Hanzhong, Lu Xun was guarding Hanzhong, but Huo Jun successfully made a sneak attack and used the Qinling Mountain Road to force Cao Cao's army back.

In the above three battles, except for the Battle of Hefei, Cao Cao was on the offensive side and Liu Bei was on the defensive side. The next role reversal is hard to say. The population advantage of the Northern Wei Dynasty will be magnified, and line-filling operations are not the specialty of the Southern Han Dynasty.

Huo Jun pondered for a while and said: "Nanzhong and Jiaoling are not undesirable. The war has ended and Cao's thieves are in the north and have no time to take care of them. If you want to take them, send generals to conquer them. When the troops arrive, the counties will return and the local people can resettle them." .”

"Looking at the situation in the north, those who win the hearts of the people have always won the world. Cao Cao ruled the people with violence, and the lord treated the people with kindness. This is the lord's victory. The lord is good at managing the army and the people, choosing the opportunity to attack, and reviving the Han Dynasty. There is a lot to do."

Could the Northern Expedition be carried out in a hurry?

Shouchun, Xiangfan, and Qishan are all strong cities in the Central Plains, blocking the road from the south to the Central Plains.

Zongge's military force was controlled by Qishan, and Jiang Wei was afraid of Qishan and turned to attack Longxi. The strongholds of Xiangfan and Shouchun gave the soldiers of the Southern Dynasties a headache.

Liu Bei put down the tea cup and said with a smile: "The Northern Expedition is something we have planned for a long time. If it doesn't succeed, there will still be descendants. If it doesn't succeed, there will still be grandchildren. The Northern Expedition will eventually succeed from generation to generation!"

Jian Yong interrupted rudely and said: "My lord, how can you talk about Tianshou lightly? This is a very unlucky thing."

"What Xianhe said makes sense!"

Liu Bei smiled and stroked his beard and said: "I have grown up in age. Since this year, many people have been urging me to be an independent heir. I have been thinking about it for a long time and want to make my slave the prince. I wonder what Zhong Miao thinks?"

Huo Jun hesitated for a while and said: "Although the slave is talented and intelligent, he is still young. My lord is in good health, so why not keep an eye on him for a few more years so that you don't have to worry about the prince's affairs early."

"What do you think of Xianhe?" Liu Beifu asked.

Jian Yong folded his legs and crossed his legs, and said: "If Yong's memory is correct, the slave slave is about nine years old. A nine-year-old child has gradually grown in knowledge and has a slightly mature mind. My Lord, according to Huo Du's words, in the second year of inspection, In the later years of the Ming Dynasty, if he has achieved success in his studies, he can be established as his heir."

"What Jian Jun said is true, and Jun thinks so too!" Huo Jun agreed.

"That's fine!"

Liu Bei pondered for a while and then said with a smile: "According to what you two said, wait and see for two more years before making a decision."

Huo Jun seemed to think of something and asked, "May I ask my lord, did Kong Ming make a decision on the matter of Shanyue and Wuxi last year?"

Liu Bei stroked his beard and said: "Kong Ming said that in spring, people harvest wheat and plant rice; in summer, people are busy with farming; in autumn, they harvest rice and plant wheat. Only in late autumn and early winter can troops be mobilized without harming the farming season. Therefore, Kong Ming wanted to do it in autumn and winter. In the spring, send out tens of thousands of soldiers and horses to pacify the two barbarians in Wuxi and Shanyue. Try to stop fighting before spring plowing, so as not to delay the wheat harvest."

Hearing this, Huo Jun nodded slightly and said with emotion: "If Kong Ming uses troops like this, how can he hurt the farmers in battle?"

Zhuge Liang is most different from ordinary generals. As a ruler, when he marches and fights, he often takes agricultural production into consideration before formulating strategies to reduce the damage caused by war. And this is what Huo Jun admired about Zhuge Liang when he was debating with him.

ps: The population ratio of the Northern Wei Dynasty to the Southern Han Dynasty is 2:1. If you want to know the data I calculated, or have any objections, Zhou Mansion can send a separate chapter to discuss the specific data sources.

Of course, book friends are also welcome to post objectionable data and discuss with each other.

(End of this chapter)