The first thousand six hundred and ninety-eight chapters take the lead in marrying a concubine
The six young officials saw Luo Cheng personally greeting Luo Cheng, who was a senior official. They thought to themselves that the general manager, who was a military general, seemed to have no airs. At the same time, they hurriedly stepped forward and saluted.
The six young officials had obviously never agreed to salute at the same time before, so it seemed a bit chaotic.
Luo Cheng looked steady, with a well-placed smile on his face, and returned the greetings meticulously one by one, saying: "You have come all the way from Yangzhou City, and it has been a tiring journey, but it has been hard work."
After a pause, he then said with a smile: "I wonder if you are satisfied with the six Nanzhao ladies that I have arranged for you."
The six young officials suddenly felt a little embarrassed. To be honest, if Luo Cheng hadn't sent someone to notify them in advance and asked them to perform a show on the road, and made it clear that they would each take a Nanzhao woman as a concubine, they would have been on the road before.
They would not do the rash thing of directly dragging a girl they met for the first time into a car.
But, having said that, the journey was full of softness and I felt...very good.
The six young officials looked at each other, bowed together, and said in unison: "Thank you very much, Mr. General Manager. I am very satisfied with you."
Luo Cheng invited the six people into the house and said: "Don't thank me, this is the first important thing you have to do when taking over the government affairs of the six towns. The girls who match each of the six of you are the ones with the highest prestige among the six towns.
The six old daughters or granddaughters of the tribe. General Yuchi killed the Nanzhao people a little ruthlessly before. You took these six Nanzhao girls as concubines to appease the people in the six towns. I have made arrangements for you.
Yes, you will get married in three days, so the momentum might as well be bigger then."
After a pause, Luo Cheng joked again: "It's just that the six of you are the outstanding young people of our country, Da'an. It's wrong for you to marry a woman from the imperial edict."
One of the six young officials quickly said: "Your Majesty, you are so polite. All six girls are as beautiful as flowers. It's too late for us to like them, so there is no sense of grievance."
"That's right, that's right..."
The other five young officials quickly echoed.
Seeing the attitude of the six people, Luo Cheng immediately felt relieved and thought that the civil servants of Da'an Kingdom were indeed very different from those of the previous Sui Dynasty. At least this disciple's ideas were no longer pedantic.
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At this time, more than half a year had passed since the six tribes of Nanzhao were invaded by Yuchi Jingde and his army. At that time, Yuchi Jingde forcibly moved more than 60,000 Nanzhao people from the mountains, and many incidents occurred.
There were fierce conflicts and contradictions. Later, Wang Junlin sent Luo Cheng over, deployed a large number of manpower and financial resources, built these six towns, and arranged more than 60,000 imperial edicts here.
There are 1,500 elite soldiers stationed in the other five towns. The largest town, Lanzhao, has 2,500 elite soldiers stationed there. They are all elite soldiers brought by Luo Cheng from Youzhou.
In order to allow his son Luo Cheng to gain a foothold in the six towns of Nanzhao, Luo Yi selected 10,000 of the most elite troops from the 100,000 Youzhou Army and sent them to his son.
Wang Junlin personally ordered that the Da'an court had a detailed follow-up plan, so Luo Cheng didn't need to think too much about the general charter. All he needed to do was to fall into place one by one according to the actual situation and characteristics of current affairs, and in accordance with the wishes of Wang Junlin and the court.
Just be practical.
The original plan was to settle the farm near Nanzhao County, but the surrounding fields were limited, and the mixing of people who were familiar with the imperial edict and those who were new to the imperial edict might cause some trouble. So at that time, the court directly chose a site 200 miles southwest of Nanzhao County.
, on this small plain on both sides of the Nanzhao River, several Shuzhao tribes
The village of Tuntianzha was abandoned due to the war.
With the great planning of the imperial court and the strong support of the military and political officials of Nanzhao County, the settlement of the more than 60,000 Nanzhao students went smoothly. It took more than two months to build the six towns of Nanzhao.
Later, they scattered cloth, food, and living utensils, and they were able to barely survive.
"With the support of the previous imperial court and county government, the foundation of the six towns is very good, but this is just the beginning, there are still a lot of problems to come..."
After entering the mansion, Luo Cheng briefly explained the final results of the Six Towns. During this period, he occasionally mentioned that His Majesty the Emperor intended to make the Six Towns a pilot project for Da'an to rule foreign races, which made the six smug young officials' eyes brighten.
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Luo Cheng continued: "There are 43,725 households in the six towns, with a population of more than 60,000. The amount of firewood, rice, oil and salt is not a small amount. Farming has just begun, and we cannot expect the harvest in the fields in a short time. Although the court has
and the support of the county government, but His Majesty once explained before I came that these more than 60,000 people can only rely on the help of the imperial court in the previous year for their daily necessities, and they will have to rely on themselves in the future, and even have to pay a certain amount of taxes every year."
"With more than 60,000 people, there are more than 40,000 households?"
These young officials all graduated from Fanyang College. They all studied mathematics and were very sensitive to numbers. They saw the problem from the data Luo Cheng mentioned.
Luo Cheng sighed: "Yes, many of them were one person per family, and most of the strong men were dead. When they rebelled, they fought with the Liang people, and some died. Later, General Yuchi led others to kill some."
The six young officials were obviously not interested in how the young men who had been born in the six towns died. They just frowned. What they thought was that most of the more than 60,000 people were old, weak, women and children. How could they live in the fields?
Luo Cheng smiled and said: "I have already planned this matter."
A young official asked: "What countermeasures does the steward have?"
Luo Cheng said: "The strategy for recruiting people is to only recruit single men. Not only will they be given ten acres of land, but if they marry the imperial eunuch, they will also be given betrothal gifts such as cloth and silk."
In fact, this was not what Luo Cheng thought of, but one of the strategies that Wang Junlin came up with before coming. Among the more than 60,000 Zhao people, there are more than 20,000 women of the right age, either unmarried or widowed. As long as
By bringing in more than 20,000 Han people to marry, the foundation of the people's hearts in the six towns of Nanzhao was stabilized.
With the arrival of more than 20,000 Han people, the six towns of Nanzhao were no longer restricted areas and had to be governed like counties in the mainland. The six young officials were all selected capable officials. After a little thought, they understood this.
of profound meaning.
"But..." Luo Cheng added: "This is also a long-term strategy. It is impossible to recruit more than 20,000 Han people at once, and many Han people are imprisoned by their thoughts and may not be willing to marry Nanzhao women. Let the six of you each
Taking a Nanzhao woman as a concubine actually serves as a role model."
"In fact, according to your Majesty's wishes, these six Nanzhao towns are just a starting point or a pilot project. Your Majesty will capture the Tang Kingdom sooner or later, and he is determined to conquer the Turks in the north, the Tubo in the west, the Nanyue tribe in the south, and even all the tribes in the Western Regions.
Anguo. Therefore, when the six towns of Nanzhao were established, I governed them according to the county system."
"Your Majesty is indeed a great emperor..." Luo Cheng's words made the six young officials breathe heavily and look at each other, with a fiery light flashing in their eyes. This sentence "Aiming that all foreign races in the world will eventually return to the Great An Kingdom" is not for scholars.
It's a general statement, but it has a real meaning.
As Luo Cheng said, the six towns of Nanzhao were established based on the inland county system. What is the core of the county system?
Naturally, it is necessary to organize households and people.
this
In the era, household registration was roughly divided into two systems. One was the township system based on place of origin and tax collection in ancient times, and the other was the Dubao system based on household registration and public security, also known as the Baojia system.
The six towns of Nanzhao were just a blank sheet of paper, so Luo Cheng could naturally draw them calmly.
In fact, he didn't come up with anything new. After all, household registration would be a top priority even in later generations.
The difficulty is that in order to collect taxes through household registration, collection and distribution, and mobilization, we have to solve the problem of the connection between people and land (industry).
And people and places (industries) are always changing.
Although Wang Junlin and the court gave Luo Cheng very detailed regulations on these matters, some things may be easy to plan but extremely difficult to implement.
You must know that even in later generations where communication technology has been very developed, complete unity of people and place cannot be achieved. You can find people, but it is difficult to find land (industry) from people. You can find land (industry), but you can find people from place.
Difficult. Unless the person is completely tied to the ground.
From the Republic of China to the early Republic of China, these two systems were actually followed. One was the township system (rural system) of administrative regions, and the other was the Baojia system (production team system) of the tax and labor system.
Of course, Luo Cheng didn't know this, but Wang Junlin and Nie Xiaoyu from later generations knew about it and gave Luo Cheng instructions on some things. Otherwise, Luo Cheng would not have been able to see this matter so clearly.
Therefore, Luocheng is currently only regarded as a regional area.
At present, each of the six towns in Nanzhao has twelve capitals, and there are Dabao and Xiaobao under the twelve capitals.
Ten households have a small guarantee, 21 households have a large guarantee, and the total guarantee ranges from 100 to 300 households.
The other four miles are divided into four areas of residential buildings in each of the six towns of Nanzhao, just like the squares of urban households.
The management of each li is handled by a designated li, who is basically a municipal policy holder who lives in the li.
"My lord, the Sixth Town of Nanzhao is still a place of control, and the imperial court does not collect taxes, so what are they doing?" A young official asked humbly.
Luo Cheng said with a smile: "Although there are many households in the six towns of Nanzhao, most of them are widows, orphans, old and weak. These abnormal households cannot be considered regular households. Only when there are more Han households can they be included by the imperial court.
There is no need to worry about the official system of counties and counties."
"Besides, household registration is still for public wealth. The Six Towns of Nanzhao are now very poor, so we can only organize everyone to work."
After saying this, everyone will understand that Luo Cheng's current household registration is mainly to recruit and send out servants, but these servants are for Nanzhao Six Towns to carry out their own construction.
If you want to be self-reliant, you have to do a lot of things such as clearing land, farming, building ditches, etc.
The six young officials looked at each other, bowed in unison and said: "Master Manager, each of the six of us is in charge of a town. What can we do specifically? Please give us your instructions."
After talking for a long time, he finally got to the point. Luo Cheng said with a smile: "The six towns of Nanzhao are now very poor. Not only do I, the general manager, not have much food on hand, but the Nanzhao people in the towns are also crying for food. The support from the imperial court will be more than three months away.
It's about to be cut off. How the six towns of Nanzhao can become self-reliant and self-sufficient is what the six of you need to study, think about and plan for implementation..."
Luo Cheng's eyes were deep. He had been thinking about this issue for a while, and he had some ideas, but they were not mature enough. These six people were all good people selected by the imperial court to deal with people's livelihood, and they could just help him do these things.