Datang Nongsheng

Chapter 736 Plateau enters development track
Everything is difficult at the beginning, after a good start in Nagqu, the way down will be smoother, because the series of policies of Datang here have already been spread all over the place.

A fool would object to this kind of ruler who only talks about giving you some benefits, but doesn't ask you to contribute anything.

They don't know that after becoming a part of Datang, they become rich, which means that Datang is rich. When they are rich, they will think about consumption, and consumption will drive commerce, commerce, and create wealth for the court. Taxation, since the imperial court stopped the taxation of the people in the Central Plains, they have become richer and richer. This is the reason.

Datang, who has already mastered industry and commerce and liberated the agriculture and animal husbandry that provides the basic support for industry and commerce, does not need to put tax points on them poor people.

Sun Xiangfu's mission along the way was to distribute gifts, engage in cultural performances, set up government offices, set up Chinese culture teaching institutions, leave some garrisons in the local area to manage public security, assist chief officials, organize farming, grazing, production, etc.

In addition, he left enough cleaning supplies for each county, such as soap, towels, and the like, as well as a medical officer.

After boiling water without firewood, most Tibetans are still willing to take a bath. The habit of bathing less than a few times a year, or even three times in a lifetime, makes the gynecological diseases of ordinary civilians in this area extremely serious. Most of the birth and mating rights are held by the tribal leaders, which is one of the reasons why the population development is slow, and ordinary people can only obey the control of the tribal leaders and leaders.

However, these things are not given away for free. If you want to get valuable things like soap towels, as well as snacks such as various nuts, cans, biscuits, and pastries, it is very simple, that is to learn Chinese, write Chinese characters, complete the task indicators set by the government.

After Li Chengqian's new education system was promoted across the country, all children in Datang needed to go to school, and adults would also have literacy classes to eliminate illiteracy. Up to now, it has been very effective.

The national literacy rate has almost reached [-]%, and the number of people who can write has reached more than [-]%. This is because the current population structure of Datang is that there are many children, and most of these children have already gone to school.

And after this kind of comprehensive education is promoted, it will take another ten years at most. When the children in the school now enter the society and start to be the masters of their own affairs, the literacy and writing rates of the entire Datang society will reach at least [-] to [-]%. This is also because of nomads, overseas aborigines, etc., the reason why it is difficult to promote cultural education.

Of course, as long as the imperial court continues to promote this thing, after two generations, more than [-]% to [-]% of the people will be able to read and write.

The land of Tubo has been open to Tang merchants for more than three years, and the effect is still there. It is not only reflected in commercial interests, but also plays a role in the spread of Han culture.

The leaders of each tribe must know a certain amount of Chinese in order to do business with the merchants of the Tang Dynasty. Therefore, as long as there are tribes with more than a few thousand people, there are more or less people who can speak simple Chinese.

Then, in order to get these products that can clean and scrub the body, and delicious food, they will spare no effort to teach Chinese among their own ethnic groups.

Because the yamen specializes in preaching the teachings of Han culture and holds the right to distribute these things. A person who can speak Chinese will get a lot of rewards if he teaches another person. Those who learn to write will get more rewards. There are different levels of small rewards for fifty words, one hundred words, and the number of words.

Soon, when they found that children learn these things faster and have more chances of teaching children to get gifts, those who master Chinese and Chinese characters first will focus on teaching children first.

And when these children grow up under the education of Han culture, then the future here is very promising. This is part of the plan conceived by Sun Xiangfu in Shannan Road.

For a period of time, the Tang Dynasty never thought that the land of Tubo could help the imperial court make profits and generate taxes, that is, the Yuantian District of Shannan Road. The imperial court also invested manpower and financial resources as start-up funds to build the place. It was only then that there began to be a steady stream of financial and tax returns to the court.

And Sun Xiangfu's plan is to use this reward system to let everyone here start to Sinicize, start to obey the orders of the government, and focus on the government, not the tribal leaders.

There are many ways for them to get rewards, almost all of which they can do, send cattle and sheep manure, give rewards, help the government open up fields, give rewards, help the government build cities, give rewards, help the army build roads, and provide security protection measure, give rewards...
Almost as long as they are willing to work hard, they can get different degrees of rewards. In doing so, although in the early stage, the court may need to invest some materials to distribute rewards, but in the future, it is very likely that they will use their own output. To distribute their rewards, the model of Shannan Road is basically applicable anywhere to promote development.

At the beginning of April, Sun Xiangfu finally arrived in Luoxie City and began to formally call everyone to work. Songtsan Gambo had not built the Potala Palace at this time, and the original palace was also his private property. Sun Xiangfu's office was actually It was a grand and magnificent temple, but all the monks were driven away by him.

These cancerous cultures that came from Garuda must be eradicated, including other temples in Luoxie Dao. This is a religion that is not officially recognized by the Tang Dynasty. If you believe in Buddhism, you can also. The court will send serious monks later In the future, all temples will belong to the imperial court, not to a certain religion. Monks also need a certificate issued by the imperial court to preside over the temple, and only the Buddhist philosophy approved by the imperial court is allowed to spread.

Just like the Buddhist principles that Xuanzang spread in Tammo Taoism, it is now accepted by almost all the people in India, and it is also officially recognized by the Tang Dynasty.

A total of two to 300 officials from various ministries of Tubo appointed by Sun Xiangfu gathered in the main hall of the temple and began to plan the planting industry of Tubo.

The existing major planting areas here are basically controlled by the six major tribal groups, which are called Liuru. After Sun Xiangfu arrived, he naturally divided them into six states.

They are Xiangxiong Prefecture, Weiru Prefecture, Yoru Prefecture, Yeru Prefecture, Laru Prefecture, and Subiru Prefecture.

The Yalong tribe of Songtsan Gampo’s clan is now based in Laru Prefecture, and the seat of government is Luoxie City. Since the main clan members of his tribe will move to Guanzhong, the fields in this area are basically owned by the imperial court. Come to plant.

The land is actually not small, covering almost 3000 mu, and most of the altitude is less than [-] meters. In April, the temperature has already reached the temperature of spring in Shannan Province. Except for occasional small hail at night, it is generally above [-] degrees.

Most of the crops like sweet potatoes, potatoes, corn, and soybeans can be grown here.

In later generations, the agriculture in the snow area is also divided into these six areas. Because the sunshine here is the most abundant place in the world, and the temperature difference between morning and evening is also large, the area of ​​relatively high-yield cultivated land has reached more than 300 million mu. Sun Xiangfu passed The information gathered by various ministries, together with some on-site measurements, roughly gives a figure. The mature fields that have been cultivated here are only 30 mu at most, which is less than one-tenth of that of later generations.

However, for the people in this area, this is basically enough. If the fields are planted with high-yield crops and animal husbandry, Sun Xiangfu doesn't even need to organize the people to open up wasteland, he just leads them to bring himself here Seeds, planted in mature fields, are treated in a more scientific way, and the output can basically meet the needs of local people.

Unlike Sun Xiangfu's single-minded plan on how to farm, in fact, what the leaders of the various ministries want most is to go to the prosperous places in the Central Plains, because the Yalong clan, the largest family in Tubo, has decided to go to Guanzhong with Songtsan Gampo up.

The second largest family, the Geer family.More than half of the people in the tribe were mobilized and moved to Yunnan.

These two of them are the people who have mastered the top wisdom of Tubo. They are running to the Central Plains so hard, how can the rest of them be indifferent!

You must know that after the First World War at Yanpingmen, the situation in Tubo was that there were more women than men, and the ratio was even more unbalanced than that in the Central Plains, reaching the level of eight to two.

The young men who originally belonged to the various tribes of Tubo were all sent to work as prisoners of war in various places in Guanzhong. There were as many as 10,000+ people. They had all lived in the Central Plains for several years, and they could not do without the prosperous life of the Central Plains.

But the current situation is that people here who were originally related to those people here want to join them. You must know that among the prisoners of war, many people were originally the leaders of these tribes, leaders and the like.

Since they proposed to relocate, Sun Xiangfu did not stop them. After explaining to them the criteria for relocating apprentices, he let them go. It is not difficult for tens of thousands of people to scatter among millions of people in the upper fields that are not plowed. Instead of leaving the fields empty, it is better to allocate them for planting.

There are a lot of people in this group who want to move out. After the statistics, the data is a bit beyond Sun Xiangfu's imagination. The number of people who are willing to stay is actually less than 40, which is much less than expected. Moreover, these people Most of them are people who were originally enslaved by the major tribes, and many of them are foreigners who were robbed.

In the end, these people were organized into more than 13 households by Sun Xiangfu, and the average number of people resettled in each state was less than [-] households. There were slightly more households near Luoxie City, with nearly [-] households. After all, there are nearly [-] households here. With [-] mu of mature land and a certain amount of animal husbandry, Sun Xiangfu plans to develop some industries in the future, which cannot be done without population gathering.

After straightening out the population and household registration, it is time to start assigning tasks and work. You must know that the area of ​​a state here is larger than that of a province in the Central Plains in later generations. The areas that can be used for farming, planting trees and grazing are marked After that, in the future, the people here will live around these areas. Due to the small population, the distribution of cities and towns is very sparse. This is also a bit good, that is, the resources that everyone can use are relatively abundant. All of them are high-quality ripe fields, grazing areas, and the most abundant aquatic plants.

How to plant the fields is led by the agricultural students brought by Sun Xiangfu, the sergeants of the Annan Army are the organization and assistants, and the Tubo people follow the command and do their physical strength. Anyway, it is only about 30 mu, which is divided among [-] soldiers and On the heads of more than [-] people, each person is less than one mu.

Moreover, there are more cattle that can pull plows here. By the middle of May, all the fields will be planted with new crops. Supplies continue to enter Tibet, and the people's livelihood economy here has also begun to enter a high-speed development. Even when he has time, Sun Xiangfu will organize everyone to plant trees and do some infrastructure construction.

(End of this chapter)