Li Tai looked at Xue Rengui and said, "Rengui, how many Dings have been recruited in total, and how many are there?"
"There are a total of 2,500 people and 33 people, all of whom are 51 years old." Xue Rengui said to Li Tai.
"Yeah!" Li Tai nodded and said, "I didn't expect that after such a war, there would be nearly 50,000 people in Shancheng. Although there are more widows and children here, I have to say that Shancheng's development potential is still good.
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Li Tai believed that when Xue Rengui went to do statistics, many local people would choose to avoid it.
At the same time, the population of each household is less than that of a normal family of five, that is, a couple with three children. Basically, a family of three is pretty good.
In other words, the local population now registered by Li Tai as the enthronement should not be 50,000, but almost 30,000.
To be honest, after experiencing such a large-scale war and being plundered by the Tang army, there are still 30,000 to 40,000 people. If the original population of Shancheng was not 70,000 or 80,000, I think it should be 60,000.
, is considered a big city in the northwest.
However, it doesn't matter how many people there are to Li Tai now.
Because Li Tai's purpose was mainly to ensure that his decrees could be passed on to the grassroots, and he recruited these members and captains, hoping that they could become the signatures of Datang.
I need to let the local people know that there is a future only by following the Tang Dynasty.
Of course, if it were in China, I would dare to provide work relief directly and let the local people work. But now in Shancheng, I have to write to Peacock, asking her to raise some grain and grass to transport it.
Before that, what I need is to gain the trust of the local people as much as possible.
Therefore, this group of Imperial Alliance troops... no, they should be Fengyi troops, and they will become an example between themselves and the local people.
"I hope King Yan can treat them kindly. It's really not easy for the people here." Xue Rengui said, his face was a bit ugly after all.
Xue Rengui is the kind of person who, if he were a siege soldier, Xue Rengui would definitely plunder.
But when Xue Rengui was asked to register the poor local people one by one, Xue Rengui, who was born as a farmer, could also feel the frivolity and difficulty of life at the bottom.
Not everyone can bear it. The people affected by the disaster looked despairing and numb, with a bit of hatred in their eyes.
Because the gaze is truly powerful, otherwise there would be no idioms about looking at what Wei Jie and Qian Fu are pointing at.
"I know it's not easy for the people, but the relationship between us and the people cannot be easily smoothed out with just a few words.
Some of their relatives might even have been shot to death by my Jin Yiwei personally." Li Tai said solemnly.
When everyone heard what Li Tai said, Li Tai glanced over, but no one cared. After all, this kind of thing is not uncommon.
Li Tai continued: "But these are not important. What is important is that we have to find work for them, let them work hard to live, let them find that living is better than death, and let them have new hope."
!That’s what matters most.”
"King Yan has a plan for development?" Lu Anshou asked directly, "You said, let's do it!"
As a prince who has watched Li Tai step by step from the beginning of his establishment to the present, Lu Anshou said, does it require brains to develop such a thing?
Isn't it just what King Yan said and what he did, it requires a shitty brain.
Li Tai glanced at Lu Anshou and said slowly, "Everyone is busy these days, so I went to take a look at the surrounding environment and inspect the local crops.
First of all, the local farming technology is indeed poor. Although the people farm, they do not take care of it carefully.
Although they don't just sow a handful of crops and wait for the day to eat, relatively speaking, they pay more attention to their livestock than to the crops in the fields.
Therefore, I think the entire development of Xining needs to be carried out in three steps!"
Everyone saw that Li Tai had become serious, and everyone sat upright and began to listen to Li Tai's words.
Li Tai said, “The first step is for the Agricultural Society to settle in Shancheng and open an elementary school to teach local people how to farm wheat.
When spring comes, let the people reclaim the land and plant whatever spring wheat they can to ensure this year's food rations.
Because the temperature in Shancheng is lower than that of the Central Plains and the summer is shorter than that of Chang'an, it is best to cultivate the land first this year instead of planting winter wheat on a large area. It is better to try it first.
If this place is really suitable for growing winter wheat, then we can promote it on a large scale!
Changgeng, I will leave this matter to you. All of my subordinates are from agricultural universities, so you should know how to do it!"
"Please rest assured, King Yan, I will take them to reclaim the land and try to cultivate it!" Tian Changgeng said at this time.
"Take all the chiefs and Ding members who have gathered together, teach them all, and let them cultivate the land.
Tell them that all land ownership belongs to the court, but for the reclaimed land, they can apply for permanent use rights based on their family's ability.
The maximum application quota for each household is one hundred acres of farmland, and each household applies for farmland according to its own needs.
Every year, they were asked to pay the contracted rent to the court based on the acres they applied for, and all other population, corvee, and miscellaneous taxes were calculated into this.
In short, let them understand that once a year, as long as the amount is paid to the court, the rest belongs to them!"
"Rent, King Yan is using this name to replace taxes. This doesn't seem to be the tax payment system of our Tang Dynasty?!" Tian Changgeng said.
To be honest, the people present were all military generals, so they were not sensitive to this kind of tax system, but they just found it a bit strange.
"Yes!" Li Tai nodded, "Because it is a border area, and not all local people are farming people. If we transfer our current Tang Dynasty expropriation system to this country, it will dampen the enthusiasm of the people.
Therefore, we need to let local people understand taxation from the beginning, and the taxation method should be as easy as possible for local people to understand.
As for the imperial court, I will report to the imperial court and explain that these are border areas after all, and at least before these areas are integrated into China, they should be treated with a little more preferential treatment."
To be honest, Li Tai simply wanted to try the farmland contracting system, the one-whip method, and the idea of dividing the land into acres.
If these things were implemented in places like Chang'an, Li Tai felt that he would definitely be tired of living.
Even with Li Shimin protecting him, he was afraid that he would be assassinated, but in minority areas such as Shancheng, he was able to survive.
First of all, this place is ruled by ethnic minorities, and the cost of Han people ruling here is too high.
Therefore, the simpler the tax law is, the easier it will be for local people to understand. If we impose exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes, some people will rebel.
Secondly, Li Tai himself also needs a pilot place to try out those famous policies in history.
After all, even if Li Tai read these policies from books, he could not directly apply them to the Tang Dynasty in this era.
The same policy may result in oranges growing in Huainan but not oranges growing in Huainan just because of different regions, not to mention the gap of thousands of years.
This is also the reason why Li Tai supports enfeoffment.
If you have any ideas, you can try them on those feudal countries, harvest the results and experience of the feudal countries, and then use them in China after improvements. At least it will be much safer.
After all, even if Li Tai is one billionth socialist successor and receives socialist education, now...
I am the second in line of succession to the Tang Empire!
I don't want to waver, but the Tang Empire has given too much, so I can only change my position.
This allows Li Tai to sympathize with the people at the bottom, but it is impossible for Li Tai to risk his life for the people.
So the best way is to get a few more feudal states as test subjects to adapt to a system suitable for the future development of the Tang Dynasty!
This makes Li Tai definitely more bold in these foreign areas than in the Tang Dynasty, and he will even be a little over the line.
But again, as long as Li Tai doesn't hide anything from Li Shimin and tells Li Shimin all these things, will Li Shimin still blame Li Tai for trying to adapt to local conditions? At most, the official will come out and say a few words.
To be honest, as long as there are no real riots about the policies implemented in such remote areas, how many people will care.
"By allowing the local people to master the wheat farming technology and initially complete the transition from a semi-nomadic and semi-farming nation to fully becoming a farming people, we will have completed the first stage of the task!" Li Tai said slowly,
"Because this time Aye asked me to take the military-to-agricultural war department of the agricultural college. In fact, each of them has received the most orthodox agricultural education and has systematically cultivated wheat. Therefore, the teacher is a surprise
Enough.
With good luck, this preliminary renovation plan will be fully promoted in Shancheng after next year's wheat harvest.
If you are unlucky and cannot plant winter wheat, then spending three years improving highland barley and spring wheat should be enough.
Only then will Datang truly have its roots and foundation here!
At least I believe that these people who have land will never want their fields to be ruined by other nomads!"
Li Tai doesn't care what the local people think of him, but when the local people really complete the transformation into a farming nation, then for the local people, their fields will be their life.
Anyone who touches their fields will risk their lives!
In the future, when fighting breaks out in Qinghai, these people will have some sense of urgency and will fight against the nomads.
After all, farming can still be done here in the Hehuang Valley, but on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, even if the average temperature of the earth rises, it is impossible for farming to be possible there, at least for the next thousand years or so, don't think too much about it.
Li Tai continued, "As the first phase stabilizes, the local population should recover.
Especially those people who fled to the mountains should come down from the mountains, and by then the population of Shancheng should be able to recover a lot.
As their lifestyle changes, the population will gradually increase, even to the point that Shancheng may not be able to accommodate it, and the cultivated land in Shancheng itself will not be enough.
This process should take five, ten, or even twenty years, then the second step must be performed!
That is to develop the slopes around Shancheng and create terraces."
"Since this matter will take five, ten, or even twenty years to happen, is it too early for King Yan to plan now?"
Hearing Li Tai's words, Yuan Tiangang couldn't help but speak. Out of instinct, he felt a sense of crisis on a whim.
"This is indeed the normal situation!" Li Tai did not deny Yuan Tiangang's words, relying on the people to recover naturally, it will naturally start in twenty years.
After all, even in ancient times, it would take at least fifteen years for things like population to recover before children can truly become a labor force. Now that there is a fight here, it is normal to wait twenty years for recovery.
"Then King Yan thinks there will be a special situation?" Yuan Tiangang reacted after hearing Li Tai's words.
"Maybe the imperial court will enrich the frontiers!" Li Tai smiled.
Although the current court will definitely not enrich the frontiers, when Tubo emerges, there is no need to explain the geographical significance of the Hehuang Valley. The court will also know that people will migrate to the Huang Valley to a certain extent, making it a place to fight against Tubo.
Logistics base.
The number of people the Hehuang Valley can accommodate basically determines how many people the imperial court can move here.
In fact, in addition to the imperial court moving people here, Li Tai also intended to attract herdsmen from the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau to complete the transformation from herdsmen to farmers.
Therefore, if you want to develop a local area, planning must be done in advance. As for the lack of population, with the development of the local area, it will naturally form a certain degree of siphon effect on the surrounding areas.
"So Master Yuan, I wonder if you are willing to help with this!" Li Tai smiled at Yuan Tiangang.
Yuan Tiangang's expression changed, and he smiled bitterly and said, "Prince Yan, what do you want me to do?"
“I just take people to climb the peaks around Shancheng to see which hillsides are suitable for transformation into sloped fields or terraced fields.
Mark these places and formulate a preliminary development plan. These places will serve as the second development direction of Shan!"
When Li Tai said this, he felt that he shouldn't go too far, so he flattered him again.
"After all, your Feng Shui skills are unmatched by anyone in the Tang Dynasty. Apart from you, I really can't find anyone else!"
"King Yan, you are so flattering!" Yuan Tiangang felt that he should not have agreed to Li Tai coming to Hexi in the first place!
"After all the slopes that can be developed around here are marked, we will reach the third step!" Li Tai said, "At that time, we will need to continue to ask Master Yuan!"
"More?!" When Yuan Tiangang heard Li Tai's words, his expression was a bit dumbfounded,
"King Yan, is your plan too far-sighted? By the time the slope land is developed, at least twenty years will have passed!"
"It's best to start the preparation work now, which is to record the water pattern of Huangshui.
When the development of Shancheng reaches a bottleneck, it will be necessary to use Huangshui as the foundation to further develop the entire Hehuang Valley in a balanced manner.
Comprehensive development requires the construction of water conservancy facilities and the diversion of Huangshui River.
Therefore, it is best to start recording water patterns in Huangshui now, and it will not be difficult to do it by then!"
Li Tai stretched out his fist and clenched it and said, "In short, we want to make the Huangshui Valley the granary of the entire northwest!"
"Prince Yan... why don't you find my son? My old bones and muscles cannot withstand such a torment!" Yuan Tiangang said with a wry smile.