The first thousand three hundred and sixty-fourth section of the terrible Han Dynasty Liehou Group
"Your Majesty, how should this kingdom be divided?" someone asked weakly.
And he also mentioned the key point in this question.
To the nobles, the world outside the wall, to be honest, most people have a dark eye.
However, over the years, with the victory of the war, a large number of Huns slaves and prisoners of war came in.
Although most of these slaves and prisoners of war were concentrated and managed.
But there are also some people who are good at raising horses who will be auctioned off by the young master.
The nobles more or less bought some slaves.
Of course, this kind of slave trade is actually different from the slave trade on the grasslands.
Chinese aristocrats are very strict and will not do things that oppress and exploit.
In particular, this never happens when the slave has skills.
I recall that in the Warring States period, the four gentlemen of the Warring States Period were treated as honored guests, including cocks, dogs, and robbers, undressing them, and giving them food.
Although today's Han aristocrats are more than that, it is human nature to treat their skilled servants with courtesy.
Therefore, these slaves bought back by them eventually became servants and servants of various families, and some even became retainers who lived and died with the master's family.
And through the mouths of these people, the outside world gradually became familiar to the Han nobles, at least it had an impression in their minds.
Therefore, almost everyone among the Han nobles and ministers now knows that the climate of the grasslands outside the Great Wall is different from that of China.
The land of China is warmer.
As for the grasslands outside the Great Wall, it is normal to see snow in August, cold and bitter weather in September, and heavy snow in October.
In addition, each place in the fortress is also different.
For example, the land in Henan that the Han army recaptured last year, which is now named "Hetao", is a very rich place.
After leaving the Yinshan Mountains and heading north, there are numerous deserts and numerous Gobi deserts.
Some places are even thousands of miles away from people.
But some places are full of flowers and rich in water and soil.
Therefore, how to divide and entrust this has become a doubt in the minds of noble ministers.
The world outside the Great Wall is too big.
In the past, when the Han family divided the meritorious officials and appointed princes and kings, the emperor would issue an edict to Zongzheng, Dahonglu, and Taichang, ordering them to prepare a map to survey the land, and then choose an auspicious day to confer the title in the Gaomiao.
Obviously, it is impossible for people outside the Great Wall to be like China, nor do they have this condition.
Then, how to entrust it becomes a problem.
In addition, according to the emperor's statement, from now on, the feudal states of everyone's heirs will be transferred from China to outside.
This risk is too great!
What if you are unlucky or offend someone and only get a piece of desert?
A thousand miles in the Gobi Desert may not be as good as an acre of land in Guanzhong!
Therefore, for a while, most of the princes, honorable ministers and relatives looked at Liu Che eagerly.
Even the scholar-bureaucrats looked at him with burning eyes.
Everyone knows that in today's world, one must keep one's word, and now one really plans to make a large number of ministers.
However, how this enfeoffment system operates is the key.
After all, no one is stupid.
Especially when it comes to such important matters concerning the glory, wealth, wealth and life of oneself and one's descendants, even a true fool will not be stupid now.
Liu Che looked at these ministers, smiled slightly, and first said to them: "You can rest assured that any country that is enfeoffed will still enjoy the Chinese fiefdom and food for twenty years from the date of its relocation... In other words,
In addition to the enfeoffment, not only can they enjoy a feudal state three times the size of their fiefdom in the area they want to conquer, but they can also still enjoy their original fiefdom and fiefdom in China for twenty years... In addition... add favors.
The feudal land is not within it..."
As a time traveler, Liu Che knew very well that if you want horses to run fast, you not only have to whip them with a whip, but you also have to tempt them with visible carrots.
Otherwise, who will play with you?
Especially, in today's situation, there is no big enough interest to drive these aristocrats, who are bound by their wealth, wealth and food.
In addition, Liu Che also knew very well that he wanted to establish Chinese order and system outside the Great Wall.
Resources and manpower are indispensable.
Especially manpower.
Without people, nothing can be done.
Just like the Mongolian Kingdom of Mongolian King Liu Fei, if it wanted to develop and eventually completely digest the local area, it would have to immigrate at least 200,000 people.
Without people, especially young people, it would be impossible for this to develop.
Anton's experiment has explained everything.
In the areas where the reclamation regiments were stationed, the wilderness has now turned into roads, and the swamps have turned into fertile farmland.
However, the land that was not colonized by the Reclamation Corps, where most of the feudal lords had granted enfeoffments, was still a wilderness, and very few could be developed.
The degree of development of most of the princes' enfeoffed kingdoms cannot be compared with that of the reclamation regiments.
Many of them are even pure resource extraction areas, rather than a gathering place filled with vast fields and smoke from cooking stoves.
The biggest difference among them is youth and strength, which is the issue of labor force.
It is obvious that China will continue to operate the territory from the Great Wall to Congling in the future and eventually turn it into its own territory within a few decades.
There must be a large number of immigrants going out.
And a large number of reclamation groups were established in areas suitable for farming.
But the problem is, Liu Che thought about it again and again, and finally he knew that even if he cheated, he would never be able to solve this matter with the power of the country.
You should know that the plan to immigrate one million people to the Andong region has only reached half a million, less than half of the plan.
But the power of the state cannot do it, which does not mean that the power of private individuals cannot do it.
In this world, people die for wealth and birds die for food.
When it comes to national tasks, nobles, nobles, officials, and bureaucrats may drag their feet, they may try to slow down foreign workers, or they may even resort to deceit and violation.
But I will definitely take my own affairs seriously and do my best to complete them.
If there is a profit to be made, then they will do it by any means and at any cost.
for example.
At the beginning, Liu Bang, the Emperor of Gao, enfeoffed the meritorious officials as marquises, with a total of 137 meritorious officials and six relatives.
To this day, about seventy people still survive.
At the beginning, the feudal states divided by these heroes included 10,000 households in the large ones and more than 500 households in the small ones.
But today, when Liu Che opened the list of these princes' kingdoms, he was so surprised that he was speechless.
In just over fifty years, the population of these princely states has soared like a rocket.
Among them, the most buggy one is Zan County, which Xiao He originally sealed.
Initially, the total number of registered households in Zan County was 8,000.
But in the Taizong period, when Xiao Tong, the last Zan lord, was convicted and deposed as a commoner, the household registration of his vassal state increased to an astonishing 26,000 households in more than 40 years.
The average annual household registration growth rate is more than 25%!
It is no wonder that when Taizong restored the Zanhou family, he refused to let Xiao continue to be Zanhou. Instead, he moved him to Zhuyang, starting the Zhuyanghou generation of Xiao He's line.
But even so, it could not stop the old Xiao family's talent for farming. A few years after being granted the title of Zhuyang Hou, Xiao Ze, the last Zhuyang Hou, committed suicide and the feudal state was abolished. However, the population of this feudal state has never been less than 10,000 households.
, grew to 16,000 households, with an average annual growth rate of 20%...
Therefore, only two years after Xiao Zegged, Liu Che's father thought of the old Xiao family again, and this time he restored the title of Wuyang Marquis to Xiao Ze's uncle Zhuyang Yang and Xiao Yi's younger brother Xiao Jia.
This is obviously because they have taken a fancy to the old Xiao family's farming skills.
To a certain extent, the Xiao family can always seek death, but they have always lived with the country, and some of them have been princes for generations.
This is not only due to the virtuous nature of their ancestors, but also because although they are very good at seeking death, their farming skills are also flawed!
For example, the current Marquis of Wuyang, Xiao Sheng, reported to His Majesty Lai Hongfu last year that there were more than 13,500 registered residents in Wuyang County...
Another miracle of 20% per year...
Therefore, those who envy the old Xiao family.
If you have the ability, you can also achieve a 20% increase in household registration for decades!
No!
Just keep it fifteen percent!
Liu Che would also die to keep the family's wealth, and his descendants will continue to do so.
Among the various princely states, the weakest is the Yingyin Kingdom, which initially had 5,000 registered households. Today, it has less than 10,000 households and only has about 9,000 households, with an average annual growth rate of 1%.
But it is an indisputable fact that the Yingyinhou family is not good at farming.
And taking into account all the heroes of Gaodi, whether they are already gged (those who have been gged are only counted when they abolished the princes), they still exist.
Taken together, the average annual household registration growth rate of these princely states is more than 13%.
Much higher than the rate of increase in the Han Dynasty's own county and state household registration.
According to statistics from the Prime Minister's Office and the Shaofu Office of the Han Dynasty, the household registration rate is only increasing at an average annual rate of 9%.
This is the result of Liu Che's vigorous encouragement of childbearing in recent years. In the past few years, the rate of increase in household registration was only about 8% per year. (The household registration statistics come from "Population Geography of the Western Han Dynasty")
In other words, these princes are actually very capable.
At least bigger than the bureaucrats.
As for whether the princes will randomly report figures to claim credit?
it's out of the question!
Because, this is similar to later generations of companies reporting their turnover indiscriminately, and they have to pay taxes.
Oral gifts and discretionary funds are directly linked to population.
The oral tax for adults is one hundred and twenty taels a year, and every thousand households contribute four taels of discretionary money. This is an iron rule.
No one can escape.
The food income of the princes is only two hundred qian per household per year (Han law stipulates that the food rent tax of the feudal lord is two hundred (qian) per household per year)
In other words, the food tax for the princes was allocated to them from the state's finances (the oral tax was collected first).
And this is the reason why the princes like farming so much in their feudal kingdoms. For every additional household, there will be two hundred more money a year!
Play like the old Xiao family and increase your household registration by 20% a year, and you can have hundreds of thousands or even millions more in the blink of an eye.
This is still legal income, not to mention the extra money hidden in private.
And this was what Liu Che relied on to dare to release the princes.
Just rely on these guys’ farming skills and abilities.
As long as it remains at China's level, China can digest the entire Hexi and Western Regions within 20 to 30 years.
Such a profitable thing, even if you are pawned as underwear, you still have to do it!
Not to mention these preferential policies, which provide benefits and benefits.
Liu Che is also willing to put on women's clothes and have an os game!
After listening to Liu Che's words, the nobles, nobles, and officials all put their hearts back in their stomachs.
The emperor wanted to transfer the enfeoffment, or even cut off the enfeoffment of China from now on, and instead re-enfranchise outside the Great Wall.
To be honest, everyone is afraid.
Even resistant.
No matter how good it is outside the Great Wall, can it compare to the home base that I have been running for a long time?
But now, it's different.
First of all, the emperor still retained the feudal state of China for everyone and gave him a grace period, which was still very long, a full twenty years!
In other words, even if there are obstacles from the external lockdown, it does not prevent everyone from continuing to live happily, live in glory and wealth.
Secondly, with such institutional protection, everyone will feel confident.
What confidence?
My own nest!
Many of the princes present, especially those veteran princes since Emperor Gao, were now excited.
In terms of background, who can compare with them?
For example, Gu Jie, the Marquis of Qucheng, although his reputation was not good in the circle of princes, his reputation in the Chang'an market was not good either.
However, the old Gu family is the Han family's farming expert second only to the old Xiao family.
In the past fifty-eight years, the Qucheng Hou family has experienced two generations of governance.
When it was first sealed, there were only 4,000 households in Qucheng County.
It happened to be the number of households in his father's food town.
But now, Qucheng County is already one of the most populous counties in the Han family.
The total number of households reaches more than 12,400, with an average annual growth rate of nearly 20%.
Such a large population gave him great confidence and power.
Especially today, population is also wealth, heritage, and strength.
Such a population base gave him no less influence and power than Wanhuhou.
Apart from other things, Qucheng County has sent dozens of scholars to the country since the first year of Yuande, and there are more than a hundred officers in the Han army who serve from local county soldiers to field corps and above.
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Some people even served as captains of the Habayashi Guards.
And these people, Gu Jie watched them grow up, at least they have also received his favor.
And this is power, this is influence!
In the Han family, no matter how bastard and disorderly a prince is outside, he will restrain himself in the feudal country and in his hometown.
He can even show kindness and help the orphans and widows.
Therefore, the people of the feudal country have a very high degree of recognition of their lord.
Especially among the tenants and retainers, many were even willing to share life and death with their master.
At the beginning, Zhang Buyi, the last dynasty retainer, ordered others to murder his love rival Chu Domestic History, and was deposed as Cheng Dan.
After Zhang Buyu was deposed as Chengdan, to be fair, he would definitely die a miserable death.
However, in his later years, he unexpectedly lived more gracefully than ordinary landowners. At least dozens of loyal retainers and slaves followed him.
Even after his death, his affairs were handled by these retainers and slaves.
They even spent all their money to organize a funeral for their lord that was comparable to other princes.
In this way, Zhang Bujie has been deprived of all his rights, deprived of all property, and reduced to the lowest level of sinners, yet he has so many loyal ministers and righteous men following him.
How much manpower and material resources can the other princes, those who still have power and wealth, mobilize?
If nothing else, let’s take Gu Jie as an example.
In history, King Liu An of Huainan was implicated by the Prime Minister for his rebellion. It was Gu Jie who was ordered to monitor and take over the power of Huainan.
And he summoned 3,000 militiamen within three days after receiving the order.
This is an intuitive reflection of the huge human resources and influence in the hands of the Han family princes! (To be continued.).
