Late Tang

On the tower of Chengtian Gate, Li Jing was already talking softly with Gai Yu. .

"How are the preparations for the Production and Construction Corps going?" A large number of Tibetan soldiers are preparing, which is a hidden danger.Too much reliance on the armed forces of the Fan soldiers may result in the same situation as in the Tang Dynasty, when the thugs eventually turned their faces and became robbers.For Li Jing, there is one reason he knows very well, that is, the barbarians must not be allowed to control too much force, even if it is to fight for the Qin army.Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun. This is a famous saying that everyone in the future generations will be short of.No matter what the original purpose was, if the Qin army relied too much on these foreign soldiers, unexpected things might happen in the end.To control these barbarians, the best way is to disperse and disrupt them and prevent them from controlling the army. In this way, in a few years, even the sturdy barbarians will no longer be brave.Li Jing has plenty of soldiers, so he will not easily let too many Hu people become soldiers of the Qin army. The best arrangement is to let Hu people become farmers and herdsmen instead of soldiers.

"We have already drawn up a plan to start building military settlements outside Shanhaiguan Pass, Jundu Pass, and Lulong Pass, from Rehe, Liaoxi, Liaodong, Andong, to the newly laid land in the north. Extensively establish military settlements. At present, it is planned to establish 3 production corps, each with 600 people. The plan is to recruit 350 million farmers and soldiers, including 150 million Han Chinese, 100 million Bohai people, and 100 million other tribes. Scattered arrangements, the production corps will use the company as the basic unit, with 300 people in each company, a company is a military camp. Three companies of 3000 people are a regiment, and a battalion is a large military camp. Further up, three regiments have 1 people Three regiments make up a brigade with 3 people, and three brigades make up a corps with [-] people. The corps is mainly based on military colonization and reclamation, but it will also be equipped with a small amount of ordnance, and will conduct military training after production. Cultivate the north while guarding the frontier. The provisional service period of the Corps is five years. After five years, it will retire and recruit fresh blood every year. Another point is that although the Corps is not in active service, it belongs to the agricultural and military system, so it is not allowed to bring family members This is also to prevent the resurgence of tribal forces in the Northeast."

Li Jing was quite satisfied with the plan of the Staff Council. He had just conquered the Northeast, so Li Jing was worried about returning this land to the tribe.Even in order to develop the Northeast, we have to be careful.The first batch will recruit 600 million people to develop the Northeast. This plan is huge.But for Qin Fan, whose population has exceeded 2000 million, this is not impossible.Long before the Qin Fan won the Bohai War, the Qin Fan conducted a comprehensive census of the population in the Fan.This kind of census is not the ordinary inspection of the original imperial court.It turns out that the imperial court counts the population, and the rest counts are tax-paying household registrations.The group of people who do not pay taxes is not included in the population statistics, and at this time in the late Tang Dynasty, there were really many people who did not pay taxes.

First of all, monks and nuns do not pay taxes.During Wuzong's time, there was once an activity to exterminate Buddha.It was because Buddhism and Taoism were too powerful at that time. They owned a large amount of land and owned a large number of serfs.At that time, the land properties of the temples and Taoist temples were very large, occupying a small half of the land in the world, and the population attached to them was even larger. Many people even directly listed their land under the name of the temple, and then they could be exempted from tax.Not only that, but the number of monks and Taoists alone is extremely large. During the reign of Emperor Wuzong, there were several million monks and Taoists who were ordered to return to vulgarity across the country.

However, after Wuzong, Xuanzong came to power not long after. Wuzong's uncle, Emperor Xuanzong, escaped from the palace before he ascended the throne. It is said that he was a monk in a temple in Jiangxi for a period of time.Therefore, after he came to power, he began to restore the influence of Buddhism and Taoism, especially after Xuanzong's son Yizong came to power, he worshiped Buddhism even more, and the influence of Buddhism and Taoism recovered rapidly, and even began to rise.At this time, there were frequent wars, but the number of temples and Taoist temples increased a lot.

Millions of monks and priests, plus more hermits attached to their names, that is a huge number.

In addition, the slaves of the Tang Dynasty were not counted in the population statistics. Even those who were semi-free people who had been freed from slavery did not have household registration, but only had an identity record in a department in Chang'an.There were many slaves in the Tang Dynasty, and there were 10,000+ official slaves in Chang'an City, not counting the larger number of private slaves.Especially the number of serfs in manors in various places is extremely large.In addition to slaves, those people who fled their origin for various reasons, hidden households in the mountains, and peasants who took the initiative to put their land and identity under the name of the rich and powerful landlords in order to avoid taxes.

In short, in this census, the Qin Fan territory does not count the territories south of the Huaihai Province that are not actually controlled.The population of Qin Fan has reached more than 300 million, which is about 800 million more than the number reported by the local government.This number is astonishing. In addition to those hermits, monks and nuns, there are also a large number of slaves and refugees.Qin Fan is not counted according to tax household registration, but directly counted head-to-head, no matter what the status is, they are all one population.All of a sudden, the population of Qin Fan directly increased by 800 million.

In the Sui Dynasty, there was also a national census of Dasuo Maangyue, and the population increased by more than 100 million at one time.At this time, Qin Fan's investigation was more thorough, and there were more than 800 million more.Li Jing formulated new strategies for those monks, monks, hermits, slaves, etc. who were not in the original register.Through many tough measures, the Buddhist and Taoist forces have been reformed, confiscating a large amount of monastic and Taoist properties, temple and Taoist industries, and letting many monks and Taoists return to lay life. More than 200 million monks and Taoists have been returned to lay life, and countless temples and Taoist industries have been confiscated.For those slaves, Li Jing also issued a new decree. After serving in the army, they can be freed, or they can immigrate outside the customs and farm outside the customs for five years, and they can also get the status of free citizens.As for their original masters, the government compensated their main force according to a certain amount to abolish the master-servant relationship between the two parties.Those hidden households who were linked to the relationship were also found out and separated.

It is under the effect of these measures that Qin Fan has a large number of slaves and refugees from other places resettled to the northeast every year.

But this time after conquering the outside of the pass and conquering more than 100 large and small tribes, Qin Fan not only gained a large number of territories, but also added a large number of people.

When Li Jing conquered Goguryeo, it had a population of nearly one million.But now, the entire Northeast has been conquered, and the population it has conquered is extremely large.In the Bohai Kingdom alone, there were more than 400 households, and the taxpayer population was nearly 800 million. If counting their slaves, priests, soldiers, etc., the population of the Bohai Kingdom in its heyday exceeded 500 million. The reason why it is called Haidong Shengguo.Although it has weakened in recent years and experienced several years of wars, when Li Jing completely controlled Bohai, Bohai still had a population of nearly 100 million.The Khitan, Shiwei, Heishui, Tatar, Uighur and other over [-] tribes in Northeast China have been severely hit by the Qin Dynasty in recent years, losing a lot of population, and a small part of them fled to Siberia and the farther north. Mongolian Plateau.But staying in the Northeast, the total number of people who surrendered is still as many as three million.

Qin Fan has more than 300 million people, plus the almost 800 million population in the north, the current population of Qin Fan exceeds 3000 million.This number is huge. Even if all the other feudal towns of the imperial court are added up, the taxpayer population is only about 2000 million. Counting those monks, Taoists, palace people, hermits and slaves who are not on the household registration, it is about 3000 million.

Qin Fan now owns half of the world's population.

But even if Qin Fan has a population of 3000 million, it is a huge number to send 600 million people to the Northeast.This means that the 600 million peasants and soldiers cannot all be young and able-bodied men.Sure enough, Gai Yu added to Li Jing, "There will be 600 million farmers and soldiers in the corps, and there will be 400 million male soldiers and 200 million female soldiers." Qin Fan has been advocating for women to come out and take on more jobs that used to be men.Under Li Jing's leadership, and in this chaotic world, women came out to do things, and they were gradually accepted by everyone.It is normal for a woman to be a soldier, or even a woman to work.But it is unprecedented to recruit a full 200 ​​million young women to serve in the remote Northeast for five years at once.

Li Jing thought about it, in this age, there are not enough men, and there is no way to put women in many positions.But this is ancient times after all, so there are still many inconveniences in recruiting women to the Northeast on such a large scale.After thinking for a while, Li Jing said that he could consider recruiting some young couples to go to the Northeast as husband and wife.However, this provision is only limited to the Han people for the time being. For the Hu people, it must be possible for the Hu people to bring women back.If Han couples have served for five years, they can also let them choose. If they are willing to stay in the Northeast, they can divide the land and let them settle down on the spot.If you don't want to stay, let them come back after serving.

The recruitment of the Production and Construction Corps is not mandatory, it is more similar to the recruitment of enterprises, with a five-year contract, the salary will be good.Especially for those slaves and foreign refugees, after five years of agricultural and military service, they can become freemen and obtain their own piece of land, even in the northeast region outside the customs, which is very attractive to them.

The Bureau of Statistics, the Ministry of Households and the Investigation Bureau once submitted a report to Li Jing, explaining that if the Northeast region outside the customs is to be developed to the point where it can not only maintain control of the local area, but also feed back the supply inside the customs, at least the northeastern region needs to be developed. A large number of people were transported, so that the Qin Fan in the Northeast controlled a population of about 3000 million.This is a huge number. Given that Qin Fan has a population of only 3000 million today, it means that the development of Northeast China may take ten years or even 20 or 30 years before the Northeast can truly become the Peking University of Qin Fan. warehouse.

Population, Qin Fan needs population again now. (To be continued.)