Chapter 641: Dividing Fuso

After taking control of the whole of Fuso, the Chinese Empire could not wait to divide its spoils, and the three islands of Fuso (excluding Ezo Island) were divided into two provinces: the Ibuki Mountains not far east of Lake Biwa were bounded, and the western part of Honshu, Kyushu, and Shikoku were merged into Tokai Province.

The eastern part of Honshu Island is Toei Province.

Before the Chinese army's reactionary war of conquest of Fuso, it was estimated that Fusang had about 3 million households and a population of 15 million.

After more than a year of scuffle, as well as Feng Sanhu's bloody killing and plundering of the population, this number has now been reduced to 2 million households, with a population of about 10 million.

For Huaxia, it was the first time to conquer such a country with such a large population, and the gains were naturally rich, but follow-up issues must also be taken seriously.

The first is how to deal with the nearly 10 million Fuso people.

It is impossible to let them stay locally, after all, the empire still needs a large number of slave populations to fill the border wasteland areas, and it is a bit out of reality to move them all, after all, there are too many people, and it is impossible for the expeditionary force of more than 100,000 soldiers to always squat in the two provinces of Dongying in the East China Sea and not leave.

Therefore, China adopted a method of divided management: most of the nobles, including the nominal emperor, the vast majority of the daimyo, family elders, middle and upper samurai, and monks, were forcibly enslaved in the name of prisoners of war.

These people's original lives were quite rich, but the empire's conquest of Fusang destroyed their lives as masters, so the contradictions with China were irreconcilable, so they simply tore their faces and reduced them to slaves.

In addition, some of the great and small lords who had defected to China during the war, such as Tokugawa Ieyasu, had the opinion of the cabinet to confine them to a few fixed areas and continue to exist in the Outer Tibetans.

For example, Tokugawa, as the largest surviving daimyo in Fuso, was allowed to retain the territory of 350,000 koku in Mikawa and One Province.

The Emperor canonized him as Count of Mikawa and allowed Tokugawa to call himself the Earl of Mikawa.

For ordinary Fuso and low-ranking samurai other than the nobility, it is divided into several parts:

First, more than 300,000 Fuso people were directly captured during the war, and their families (if they could be found) were directly transported back to China as slaves.

Second, the bankrupt and landless people (bandits, robbers, wild warriors, etc.) in the war were also directly sold as slaves.

Thirdly, in the areas where the Huaxia government had resolutely resisted, all Fusang people had to be sold as slaves.

Fourth, in areas where the resistance was relatively peaceful, the common people could grant the rights of the common people, but the Imperial Cabinet would force at least half of them to relocate.

According to this treatment, 4 million of the 10 million Fuso were reduced to slavery, and about 6 million were counted as commoners, but 3 million of them were waiting to be relocated.

Fuso's native Fuso population will rapidly decline to about three million in the next few years, and then become ordinary laborers in Chinese mines, farms, and service companies.

For the sake of stability and rule in the two provinces, the population of Fuso should be forcibly reduced to 3 million, and of course some trustworthy population should be filled.

The cabinet's plan was to transfer 10,000 households from Solon from Waibo, 30,000 from Goryeo from Waibo, 1,000 from Ryukyu to Waibo, 1,000 Mughur households from the initiative to take refuge, and 1,000 households from the Western Regions of Waibo to fill the two provinces of Donghai and Dongying.

These people would be given a piece of land and become common people as yeoman farmers—although they did not enjoy preferential tax payments, but at least their personal freedom was partially guaranteed compared to the common people of Fuso.

At the same time, these people would also become part of the local garrison to suppress the resistance of the Fuso.

The other is Han Chinese immigration.

According to the statistics of the cultivated land produced by Fuso's 22 million koku, each of the 33,000 outdoor immigrants received 60 koku of land (150 koku, which was already considered a low-class samurai according to the concept of the Fuso people, and the empire's taxes on the common people were lower than those of the Fuso daimyo on the peasants), totaling about 2 million koku.

The rest of the arable land is the wealth of the Han people.

One million stone of land was dedicated to the Imperial Family by the Cabinet as an Imperial Estate.

Eight million stone as a state farm directly under the government.

The remaining more than 10 million were distributed or sold as incentives to attract Han Chinese immigrants.

In addition to the mines and port, it is expected that the land in Fuso will support at least 20,000 small Han Chinese farmers (an average of 500 stone per household, although it is not that high, as some large families will take more of it).

These Han immigrants were not limited to the empire itself, and the Han people in Jiangnan also had the right to immigrate to Fusang (also as a means of digging the corners of the Great Zhou Dynasty), but the Jiangbei immigrants mainly rewarded meritorious soldiers (who could exchange merit for land), or civilians took out loans to buy land at a low price.

The Han people in Jiangnan were able to spend money to buy land or take out loans (although the price and interest were the same as those in Jiangbei).

Sharing food in such a country as Fuso is a rare feast for China.

The huge deposits of gold, silver, and copper alleviated the pressure of the Empire's insufficient reserves of precious metals, especially the output of the Koshu gold mines, which provided a solid foundation for the Empire to issue additional gold coins as a deposit for paper money.

The influx of a large number of cheap people has made the overwhelmed imperial labor pass through in one breath, and the development of the Great Northern Wilderness in Ji and Hei provinces finally does not have to worry about the labor problem - it would be good to throw the Fusang people there to open up the wasteland, and even better, because most of them are slaves, the Great Northern Wilderness will be successfully developed in the future, and these slaves will be moved away, so that the Han people can pick the fruits of their labor, and no one will feel that there is anything wrong at all.

Some dangerous, important jobs with relatively small immediate returns, such as water conservancy construction, river control, mine operations, and serfs on large farms, can be filled with Fuso labor. The precious Han Chinese population can be more concentrated in faster and faster industrial production.

In addition, the release of a large number of Han Chinese labor also allowed the army to obtain a stronger mobilization force, making continued expansion a highly profitable job.

Of course, for the common people, this victory was also very sweet - at least, even the poorest bachelors could pay a little money to buy a Fuso lady to live.

In fact, with the influx of a large number of Fuso slaves, there was a steep decline in the singles rate in the empire.

Even in the port cities of Donghai and Dongying provinces, there were many slave traders from Jiangnan—most of whom selected young girls for the Jiyuan in Jiangnan to serve as thin horses.

Because the innocent Han people have the capital to survive when they arrive in Jiangbei, the proportion of Han people in the Jiangnan Jiyuan is getting lower and lower, at least the situation of selling oneself is rare.

This made many of the old eagles in the courtyard anxious in their eyes.

Now it's okay, the Fuso girl is cheap and obedient, buy some and send them to Jiangnan, and you can pick up customers after a few years.

This provides a huge guarantee for the source of Ji Nu in Jiangnan.

Except for the Fuso, almost everyone else benefited from the victory, and naturally the beneficiaries and some of the people who did not reap enough benefits this time were looking forward to the next war of conquest of the empire.