The year 1790, the first year of the establishment of the Chinese Empire, was a rare year without any major war since the rise of the Xu family.

In this year, Huaxia, Mengwu, Da Zhou, and Dang Xiang Xia are very rare, and they are still in peace.

The Mengwu and Dang Xiang Xia did not go south to graze horses during the autumn harvest, nor did Huaxia go north to sweep the north, and only a few insignificant skirmishes broke out on all sides, and under the constraints of the high-level, the skirmishes did not cause major disputes.

All parties are recuperating, especially this year, which is a rare year of good weather and good weather, and the harvest of each family in agriculture is not small.

Some people say that this is a blessing from heaven, and the birth of the Chinese Empire is in accordance with the will of heaven.

Xu Muhe was very satisfied with this statement, but Xu Shiyang just smiled, and then abandoned the back of his mind.

There are so many more important things to deal with.

In the summer, because of the emperor's grandson Xu Daizhuo's behavior of taking a shortcut in the military academy training assessment, it detonated a severe crackdown by the imperial cabinet against crimes in the country.

Xu Shiyang called the operation a strike hard.

The Cabinet, the Criminal Department, the Ministry of Rites, and the Ministry of War jointly operated, and all state capitals, counties, and villages dispatched reserves and militias, and even field armies all dispatched men and horses to form assault teams to carry out large-scale sweeping strikes against all bandits, bandits, sea bandits, horse bandits, stolen goods dens, black shops, and gang organizations under the jurisdiction of the entire empire.

At the same time, the Ministry of Household issued the most severely worded document, demanding that the entire population of the empire be completely organized by the end of the year.

Whether it is a nobleman, a citizen, a commoner, a commoner, or a slave, as long as they are members of the empire, they must have a serious and official identity certificate issued by the imperial government.

At the end of May, the emperor's family, including all the concubines of Xu Muhe, Xu Shiyang and his palace concubines, all received local identification certificates in Qingzhou Mansion of Qi Province.

The emperor's family took the lead, and the rest of the work was naturally easy to do, because not following up would be considered politically incorrect, and the officials' sense of smell would not be so insensitive.

Not only have the population under the jurisdiction of the counties been assigned to the whole household, but even the displaced people who have come from other places (now even from abroad) to survive have all completed the work of forming a household and uniting the people.

This is equivalent to a census exercise.

Thus, by the end of the 1790 session, the Cabinet had the most detailed population data ever obtained:

Slaves: 885,500.

Commoners: 371,750 households, 1,226,800 people.

Civilians: 2,225,570 households, 10,905,300 people.

Citizens (including nobles, because nobles are citizens): 551,150 households, 2,700,700 people.

The number of households is accurate to ten, and the number of mouths is accurate to hundreds.

For this day and age, such precision is an absolute miracle.

The total population was 14.89 million, an increase of about 1 million or 7.2 percent over the figure at the end of last year.

This is a very high percentage, but the main reason is the influx of displaced people from other places, and the fertility rate in China is indeed high, but it is not as high as 7 points.

There was no large-scale war this year, so the slave population grew slowly, and some of the extra 100,000 slaves were hidden slaves in the past - in the era of the Qi Kingdom, the government of the King of Qi stipulated that the common people were not allowed to own slaves, and the commoners could have a maximum of one slave and two citizens, and the nobles also had an upper limit according to class.

For slaves within the legal scope, the master's family only needs to pay a small annual poll tax. However, slaves who are beyond the scope of the law are subject to a high surcharge by the master's family.

Before this census, the rich and powerful liked to hide some slave population, and most of them were sent out this census.

The increase in the common population was related to the crime rate, and in 1790 the Imperial Government imposed 7,000 death sentences and executed more than 11,000 people.

Nearly 120,000 people were relegated to the rank of commoners for committing crimes but not to death, and were sent to the frontiers.

This included a relative of the emperor: the emperor's younger brother Xu Muhai was deprived of all his titles for hooliganism and resistance to the census, and was demoted to a commoner and assigned to Liaodong.

This kind of practice of the royal family committing the same crime as the common people really shocked many people, and it was also an important reason for the smooth implementation of the Strike Hard Campaign, and the internal security of the entire Chinese Empire was completely appeased.

In tandem with the Strike Hard and the Population Census is the economic census campaign.

Taking advantage of the census, the household department conducted a comprehensive census of all cultivated land, wasteland, forest land, grassland, ponds, swamps, and saline-alkali land, as well as large and small enterprises, factories, shops, state schools, private schools, ancestral halls, temples, Taoist temples, and other religious facilities.

All regions under the jurisdiction of the empire were numbered at the provincial, prefecture and county levels (similar to postal codes), and house numbers were assigned at the village and household levels, and at the same time, post offices were established, and the construction of a unified postal system throughout the country began.

These moves, including the military reform that began this year, were in fact aimed at strengthening the centralization of power (though not just imperial power), and when all this was done, the nascent Chinese empire would become even stronger.

It will also be more aggressive.

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The absence of a major war does not mean that there is no expansion, and in 1790, China took full control of the territory north of the Huai River in the provinces of Suzhou, Anhui, and Henan.

At the same time, in the direction of Liaodong, the imperial army steadily advanced towards the Ji and Mo regions, and a large number of Jurchen tribes surrendered and were transformed into Waifan tribes.

The result of the battle was won and lost, and the losses of the double anti-dump were not small, but for the empire, this was really "killing the Jurchens to remove internal worries, and killing the Jurchens to eliminate troubles", and whoever dies is considered a good thing.

In terms of territory alone, at the end of the year, the empire established five new provincial-level administrative regions: Su, Anhui, Henan, Ji, and Moxi.

However, because the empire temporarily occupied only a small part of the territory of the three provinces of Suzhou, Anhui, and Henan, and the population of the Han people in the core of the two provinces of Kyrgyzstan and Mexico was too small, these five provinces were actually only a local government shelf, and there was no field army stationed, and a detailed census system was not implemented for the time being.

In 1790, the empire had revenues of 92 million taels, expenditures of 83 million taels, and a surplus of 9 million taels.

The empire's power is still growing, and now the empire has crushed its surroundings in all aspects except the total population.

At this year's meeting season, when setting the goals for the coming year, Xu Shiyang issued a three-year short-term plan to all officials:

Before the arrival of 1794, the remnants of the Wanyan Sect were completely pacified, and all the Jurchen tribes were rectified, and the two provinces of Ji and Mo were brought under actual control.

At the meeting, someone asked Xu Shiyang what his goal would be in three years.

He looked south and smiled without saying a word.