After Tan Shihuai was executed, the officials in the DPRK naturally became busy again. Many young scholars were arranged to Liangzhou to stabilize the situation in Liangzhou. Most of these young officials performed well in the civilian villages.
Officials with outstanding political achievements, including Tian Feng, became the magistrate of Guzang County and became the youngest magistrate during the Jianning period!
Zheng Xuan was more controversial. The courtiers wanted him to return to the temple and take over as Jiuqing. It would be best if he could get rid of the Yang ball and enter the court. However, the little fat man did not let him come back. He thought that he had done meritorious service in herding cattle before, and this time he would guard the palace.
Because of his meritorious service in the city, Zheng Xuan was worshiped as the governor of Liangzhou by the little fat man. Zheng Xuan did not dare to accept it. The little fat man sent people to appoint him three times before Zheng Xuan took office.
As a great Confucian, he was better at studying and lecturing, and was relatively weak at governing political affairs. However, he was a tolerant man and stayed in Liangzhou for a long time. He had also been an apprentice in Manan County in Liangzhou before. Therefore, in this situation,
In the turbulent situation, he is the most suitable candidate. The little fat man believes that he can stabilize the situation in Liangzhou the fastest.
As for the water transportation and canal construction proposed by Wen Renxi, he gradually formulated a plan and began to implement it. The first place was naturally Yangzhou, because Wang Fu himself had opened many channels in Yangzhou to promote water conservancy and irrigation. Therefore, the plan he drafted
The first large-scale canal in China was from Danyang across the Lujiang River and through Geyang to Runan, which could connect the Central Plains and Jiangdong.
Whether transporting manpower or food and grass, it is extremely convenient.
Wang Fu was also very concerned about this matter. He governed Yangzhou for a year and worked nonstop day and night. All the officials in Yangzhou, big and small, were almost tortured to death by him. He also implemented the scientific merit system in Yangzhou and appointed a large number of young officials.
In governing Yangzhou, there are many prefects in their early years and county magistrates in their early years. These young officials are more energetic and less sluggish than before.
They are also extremely fanatical in what they do!
In more than a year, Wang Fu actually cultivated nearly 800,000 hectares of farmland in Yangzhou. The original household registration records of Yangzhou showed a total population of 4.33 million, of which 430,000 were in Jiujiang County and 430,000 in Danyang County.
630,000, Lujiang County has a population of 430,000, Kuaiji County has a population of 480,000, Wu County has a population of 700,000, and Yuzhang has a population of 1.66 million.
At the end of the year, Wang Fu personally led young officials from various places to start household registration and conduct surveys. It can be said that he personally visited every corner of Yangzhou. The final result was a population of 6.2 million, which was much more out of thin air.
There are more than two million people. In addition to the population of mountain people, there are even more hidden populations of wealthy and powerful families from all over the country, hiding their servants!
What they ushered in was Wang Fu's butcher's knife. Wang Fu killed dozens of powerful families for violating Han law. Yangzhou's swords were shining with blood and he just pulled out the hidden people from the mouths of the wealthy people everywhere.
According to the number of people registered, Wang Fu distributed cultivated land to them for reclamation, and built water conservancy projects in many areas. All this money was taken from the hands of powerful families!
In less than a year, Yangzhou's grain production reached the scale of wealthy counties such as Qingzhou and Xuzhou!
Jizhou, which has the highest grain output, is about to be overtaken by Yangzhou. If the emperor had not made great efforts to develop Mintun and cultivate mulberry trees in recent years, Yangzhou's current grain output would have surpassed Jizhou! All the officials were frightened by Yangzhou's report.
They all went to Yangzhou to inspect, and sure enough, what they saw was farmland everywhere, people living and working in peace and contentment, no thieves on the road, and officials busy.
The little fat man was full of praise for Wang Fu and asked him to go to Luoyang to receive the reward!
Wang Fu just replied, "Yangzhou has not yet flourished, and I don't want to see the king." So he stayed in Yangzhou, and the little fat man did not rush him. The rapid development of Yangzhou surprised the governors of various states, especially Jizhou and Xuzhou.
, Qingzhou, Yanzhou, these wealthy states, have all been complacent since Mintun, but now they are almost surpassed by Yangzhou, a barbarian land, and they are dissatisfied!
A trend of mulberry farming has arisen again in various places. The governors have built water conservancy projects and encouraged mulberry farming. Some governors also imitated Wang Fu and ordered the powerful to hand over the hidden tenant slaves, or directly investigated and investigated them personally.
The domestic slave tenants were hidden and did not have to pay taxes. But now that they are exposed, an unknown amount of taxes have been increased. Most of these taxes are directly used for water conservancy projects.
A virtuous cycle is formed.
During the court meeting, I heard someone proposed to the emperor: "Nowadays, most of the big families hide their slaves and private members to avoid taxes. This is even bad. We should clearly warn them. We can order local officials to check the local household registration and make a decision."
The roster is used to observe the governance!" As soon as these words came out, big families like the Xun family and the Yuan family suddenly had a headache, but there was nothing they could do. The current emperor was not something they could resist.
The Han Dynasty began the first nationwide household registration registration in the Jianning period.
It was not until the end of the sixth year of Jianning that the results were achieved.
The total population of the country is 64.77 million. The number of registered households in the Han Dynasty in the first year of Yongxing was 53.2 million, and in the fourth year of Yanguang it was 48.62 million.
In the fifth year of Yonghe, there were 49.15 million people. In the sixth year of Jianning, the number of household registrations completely exceeded the previous ones and reached its peak. The little fat man was extremely happy. At the court meeting, he also praised Sangong and many others.
Official achievements.
Of course, imperial officials like Cao Song put the credit for their achievements on the emperor. If it weren't for the emperor's sage, how could we have such a great rule today?
This is true. Since the Emperor came to power, people in various places have rarely starved to death, there are enough granaries, and household registrations have naturally increased explosively. Coupled with the hidden household registrations of the powerful, this has resulted in the emperor's incredible achievements.
Jizhou, Qingzhou, Xuzhou, Yanzhou, Yuzhou, etc., under the policy of Mintun, the grain production has been several times that of before!
Chidao even connects the entire Central Plains region and drives the development of the entire Central Plains region.
Yangzhou prospered greatly under Wang Fu's governance, but currently, Jingzhou, Liangzhou, Yizhou, Bingzhou, and Youzhou still need development.
Even so, the world of the Han Dynasty is still in a prosperous situation. In private schools everywhere, the sounds of young children reading are loud and clear. The people have surplus food at home, and the ever-decreasing taxes put smiles on their faces. Victory.
Shan Yue and the defeat of Xianbei made the majesty of the imperial court deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. Everyone felt that a prosperous age like a literary scene seemed to be coming!!
The most terrifying thing is that there are no enemies as powerful as the Xiongnu around in this prosperous age.
The only strong enemy is Xianbei, and their leader was beheaded in public in Luoyang not long ago.
Thinking of the praise in the history books and the admiration of future generations, the officials of the Han Dynasty were suddenly filled with motivation.