Chapter 1349 The Great Development of the Western Region

Fu Bi is in Xijing, and he said that Cai is indeed a villain, and it is not suitable to be used, so listen to it.

The disturbances caused by the reform of Yuanfeng in the court do not exist here in Suyou, because now his level is one step further, and he is the third division and three dukes.

As long as you don't get degraded, then if you don't enter the court, once there is an edict, it must be the level of Shangshu's left and right servants.

Otherwise, you have to turn to the right class and be crowned the king of the county.

This kind of thing can't be done, so Su You repeatedly emphasized that the legitimacy of the Great Song Dynasty to obtain the Western Xia was a regular edict to "let the country", not the Great Song Dynasty to "seize the country".

This is an important weapon against the next diplomatic offensive of the Liao State, and a group of Liaophobic patients in the Song Dynasty can be described as grateful for Su You's operation.

You have to admit it, and you have to recognize it quickly!

However, in this way, the success of Pingxia's work was slightly worse, and from the Duke of Fu to the Duke of Shu, the court did not bear the name of being treated lightly.

Then Su You had to accept the second son of Fengyin, Zhao Ji thought that if he opened this opening, he could continue to add officials to the flat can colander in the future, which was a good "progress".

Only Cai Cheng is still clamoring to reward Su You, thinking that it is not enough to show off his heroes.

It wasn't until the end that Zhao Ji said that you want to make trouble again, then I can only ask the Duke of Shu to come back to take your position, and Cai Cheng quieted down.

However, these are just "reasonable on the scene", and in his heart, Zhao Ji still feels a little indebted to Su You.

So Zhao Ji cited the old practice of the imperial court, the story of Cao Bin's destruction of the Southern Tang Dynasty, and prepared to reward Su You with 800,000 yuan.

Su You resolutely refused, and the book said that His Majesty was also wrong.

Cao Bin destroyed the Southern Tang Dynasty and obtained the Southern Tang Dynasty treasury of 8 million yuan, so his reward was worthy of his merits.

The Western Xia royal family was self-destructive, not a courtier; The Xia Kingdom is not destroyed, but degraded; Not only did he have no money, but he also had to continue to fight a ten-year battle against poverty.

This is fundamentally different from King Cao Lu's taking of the anointed land in the south of the Yangtze River.

Therefore, the merits of the ministers can be regarded as solving a border trouble in the Great Song Dynasty at most, and the merits of King Cao Lu are not equal.

800,000 guan is obviously too high, and the minister does not want to ask for a reward, but only wants to ask His Majesty for a few policies.

One of them is to open the Huangsong Bank in the hometown of Xia Guo.

The second is that the ban on border trade in the former Xia country has been abolished.

The third is to set up a city in several border areas in the territory of the former Xia State to lure the border to come to trade.

Fourth, just as the Great Song Dynasty sent envoys and internal officials to the South China Sea with Pu Shan to prepare boats and ships this spring, and planned to visit Daxi Prefecture, the Great Song Dynasty should also send envoys and internal officials out of Hexi and Mobei to carry out foreign affairs activities.

The fifth is the population problem, which needs to follow the example of the Han Dynasty and enrich the Xiang army from the interior to Hexi, and carry out reclamation.

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Regarding the population of Western Xia, it has always been a mystery, and even the number of troops is not very reliable.

The most detailed record is probably the record of "History of the Song Dynasty and the Biography of the Xia Kingdom".

"From Hebei to Wulayu Mountain, 70,000 people, in preparation for the Khitan;

50,000 people in Hongzhou, Baibao, Anyanzhou, Luoluo, Tiandu, and Weijingshan in Henan Province to prepare for Huan, Qing, Zhenrong, and Yuanzhou;

50,000 people on Youzhou Road in the left chamber to prepare for Dun, Yan, Lin, and Fu;

30,000 people on Ganzhou Road in the right chamber to prepare for Xifan and Hui;

Helan garrison 50,000, Lingzhou 50,000, Xingzhou Xingqing 70,000 for the guard,

A total of more than 500,000. ”

Through the war, Su You felt that this number was relatively reliable, and among the regular troops annihilated by the Song army this time, including 70,000 of the Western Xia Bei Khitan; The 100,000 of the Great Song Dynasty, the 30,000 of the Beiqing Tang Dynasty, the 70,000 of the Renduo and the 70,000 that the Ding Ding brought across the Yellow River from Xingqing Mansion, plus the remaining 30,000, the total is about 300,000.

The remaining 200,000 are the servant army of the Xia State.

If the number of the army is correct, according to the Xia ** system, four dings send one soldier, then the Dingkou of Western Xia should be about four million.

These tints, plus almost equal women and children, should be about eight million.

This number is far higher than many experts have speculated, but they are not to blame, because even the Xia people themselves do not know how many people they have.

Because there are still a large number of nomadic tribes, the Xia people themselves have not counted them in the historical data.

Wen Yanbo once said that the population of Shaanxi can be used as the entire territory of Western Xia, which means that everyone can control the part of the base.

Of course, even if it is counted as 8 million people, about 1 million have been recruited by the 4th Road in Shannan and Shaanxi, more than 300,000 have disappeared in the vast dry sea, and 200,000 have disappeared on the way to the army, such as the tens of thousands that almost made Wang Zhongzheng's head burn to death in Jialuchuan, and now there are only about 6 million left in the area managed by Su You.

And most of these six million are scattered in the vast territory of more than 10,000 miles of "the Yellow River in the east, Yumen in the west, Xiaoguan in the south, and the desert in the north".

Among the areas controlled by the Xia Kingdom, there are many deserts and Gobi, and about half of the land is not suitable for human survival, so its population density is much lower than that of the Northern Song Dynasty, and even Hebei.

At present, what Su You can control, that is, the fixed farming Han people, as well as the population concentration areas along several large grasslands, oases, and rivers, are less than half, about two or three million.

These two or three million people are basically distributed in the two major water system areas of Jiuyuan in the suit, Xingqing Mansion outside the suit, and Juyanze and Xiutuze in Hexi.

The real land is vast and sparsely populated.

Therefore, on the issue of the reward for this war, Su You suggested that the imperial court should all use land as a reward.

But in this way, there will be a problem, and it is very serious - the group of people who have made outstanding achievements in war are all important dependents of the imperial court, professional soldiers.

It is impossible for them to lay down their arms and go to the local lord.

The final result of the negotiation was that the imperial court exempted the rent of this part of the land for ten years.

The Huangsong Bank and the Sitong firm participated in separating the ownership and management rights of this part of the land.

The Huangsong Bank endorsed and loaned 5 million yuan to the Sitong firm, which used them as lease capital and leased the land from the soldiers for the development of agriculture and animal husbandry.

The profits were divided into three parts, one part was returned to the Huangsong Bank, one part was returned to the meritorious soldiers, and one part was used for the operation of the northwest of the firm.

This is actually an installment payment for the soldiers' military merits, but the down payment alone can satisfy the soldiers, not to mention that there will be a ten-year income in the future.

And ten years later, these lands are still soldiers!

Sitong is also short of people, but Sitong is a professional to do this, they can recruit the population of Xia to do this, which is of great benefit to Suyou in the three roads to promote new agriculture, transform the local economic structure, and change the ethnic attributes of the Xia people.

And after these people are trained, they will become the obedient people of the Great Song Dynasty, become professional farmers, and ten years later, they will be the first batch of takeovers of this batch of land.

This measure greatly reduced the financial burden caused by the merit reward, and the Duke of Shu was really capable of what people could not, so that the imperial court could not only gain face but also keep the lining in the great cause of Pingxia.

There were already a lot of Han people in Western Xia, and Su You was confident that farming would be used for animal husbandry, as long as it was not a knife, and everyone would compare the output value, the Han people and the Fan people who chose the Han lifestyle would soon become the mainstream of this land.

Coupled with the ruthless invasion of culture, food, and living habits, the nation of the party will soon be integrated into the big national family.

In view of this self-confidence, Su You finally applied to Zhao Ji from his request under the cry of Wei Mingji, and reserved the existing Western Xia books and inscriptions, as long as they were those that did not transgress, such as Buddhist scriptures.

The Tangut script was created by Wild Glory Renrong, and the strokes are very complicated, not friendly to memory, and more difficult to understand than Chinese characters.

It is not the same as the script created by the Vietnamese and Koreans in later generations, at least it is concise and easy to remember.

Therefore, Su You knew that if this kind of writing was not forcibly intervened by political forces, it would actually have no vitality, and after the Xia State re-implemented Chinese characters, the Western Xia script was destined to be eliminated by history.

What is also different from history is that this kind of writing has only been implemented for a few decades, and there are not many readers in Western Xia now, Su You feels that his ability to implement Chinese characters is better than Li Yuanhao, I don't know how many times.

Politics manages all aspects, so everyone is busy.

Chao Gu's monopoly on the position of governor of the Privy Council of Western Xia for decades was not for nothing, and he had too many handles in his hands for the officials of Western Xia.

Even after the pacification of Western Xia, Su You simply turned these secret police under Chaogu into law enforcement officers.

The nature of this kind of magistrate is very similar to that of the immigrant magistrates in the western United States, and this is the only pitiful bit of legal force that Su You can add to the vast pastoral areas of Western Xia today.

If the Xia people in the past were too lax in the management of the animal husbandry tribes, they were too strict with the Han people who were in charge of farming.

Su You designed the balance of the political situation of Xia Guo very carefully, so he was very relieved of this team, and even dared to let go, and he took charge of the construction of workers and peasants.

The first step was the emancipation of the serfs.

There is no way, the masters of Zhuangzi have all died in the war, and the managers of the serfs can only become officials.

Decades of exploration are not in vain, and now Su You's hands have many successful models - Shuzhong model, Weizhou model, Liangzhejiang model, and South China Sea model.

The current Ningxia model is a combination of several models.

Ningxia has the advantages of salt and iron, and there is the Silk Road, which is very similar to the South China Sea.

Jiuyuan, Liangze, and Xingqing Plains have an agricultural foundation, which is very similar to Liangzhejiang Road.

Local products and varieties can be compared with Weizhou, which has a similar climate.

In terms of economic structure and financial instruments, it is basically the same as Shuzhong at the beginning - a blank slate.

The only thing to be aware of is that there are too many Tibetans and the influence of nomadic ways.

However, this is similar to the successful exploration of Hehuang Minzhou.

So Su You is very busy, but very happy, the damn war is finally over, and it is finally his turn to play to his strengths.

The development of the western region on a large scale.