Saints, if these powerful people are allowed or even encouraged to colonize, I am afraid that there will be trouble. Wei Zheng appeared in front of the emperor with some worry.

"What's the trouble, you say?" Luo Cheng was reading the newspaper with a glass of wine.

"The main trouble, of course, is that these powerful people take this opportunity to go abroad to colonize and develop, and when the time comes, the sky is far beyond the reach of the imperial court, and those colonies will inevitably become their private kingdoms. If the imperial court cannot manage it effectively, then they can do whatever they want with these colonies, and may even transfer property, population, etc. This will undoubtedly drain our population and wealth, and weaken our national strength. ”

Luo Cheng put down the newspaper and nodded, "What you said does make sense, but we can't give up eating because of choking." You know, there are often records of escapees in history books, and most of the escapees appear when a dynasty is at its strongest, Lao Dao, can you tell me why? ”

Running away generally refers to abandoning one's nationality and escaping.

In ancient times, the management of household registration was quite strict, generally strictly restricting the flow of population, prohibiting people from leaving the place of household registration at will, and even if they wanted to leave, they had to get a certificate issued by the government. As for wanting to move to another county or even further afield, that's even more impossible.

Household registration was an important basis for managing the people in ancient times, and it was also the basis for taxation.

Only when there is a household registration can there be a population, and only when there is a population can there be a tax and a tax.

Wei Zheng is of course very clear about such a question.

"In ancient times, the problem of emigration has always been endless, but why the most important time for the problem of emigration is mostly when the dynasty is prosperous, in fact, it is also very simple, in the final analysis, it is brought about by the serious land annexation. When the dynasty is strong, most of the dynasty is about a hundred years old, at this time, the dynasty has entered its heyday, and its annexation is often to the peak of the time, especially in the Central Plains, with the stability of the dynasty for a long time, the number of people will increase, but the land is unchanged, coupled with the annexation of the powerful nobles, it will lead to more and more landless people, but most of the dynasty taxes, are based on Ding, there is no land has nothing to do with it, there is a tax on Ding, but there is no land to bear the heavy service, so the people began to abandon their nationality and flee, They will flee to the frontier or mountainous areas and become aliens. If you leave the country, you will naturally not have to bear the burden of military service. When it comes to the border land, the border land can often be cultivated to maintain the family's food and clothing. ”

Luo Cheng nodded.

In ancient times, many dynasties generally strengthened the investigation of these fugitives, and once discovered, they had to be sent back to their hometowns, and they might even be punished and sentenced.

Of course, there are some other dispositions occasionally.

For example, when Wu Zetian was in power, the people of the world fled seriously, so Wu Zetian also decreed that for those who fled from citizenship, regardless of the host or guest, they were all resettled on the spot, recognizing their renaturalization in the local area, and allowing them to stay in the local area.

"Old man, in the final analysis, the people lost their land, but they still had to bear the tax service of the taxpayers, so they had no choice but to flee from their nationality. In our dynasty, there have been some precautions for a long time, so it was changed to a two-tax system, and Ding is no longer the basis of taxation, but is taxed on the basis of households and acres of land, supplemented by low household taxes, and mainly land taxes. Therefore, even if the people really lose their land, they will not have to bear much of their taxes. However, even if the people do not have to pay the land tax, it is difficult to guarantee their livelihood after losing their land, so our dynasty allows the people to move, especially to encourage them to move to the border areas to settle down. ”

"For the imperial court, there is a lot of land, and the land tax will not change, so whether the people can move or not is not a big impact. As for your statement that those colonies are far from being manageable, I don't think it is possible, and the imperial court may let the city department take care of them, or set up a special yamen to manage these colonies, collect taxes and manage them. The imperial court could even manage the fiefs of the princes, so why couldn't these colonies be managed? Although the colonists pioneered colonization and had more influence on the colonies, it was impossible for them to become independent kingdoms. ”

When the colonies are small, the influence is also small, even if the imperial court cannot directly manage these small colonies, then their influence on the imperial court is also less harmful, and when they develop larger, the imperial court will inevitably send people to manage, and may even garrison troops, and then its power will of course be in the hands of the imperial court.

In the long run, Luo Cheng felt that it would be beneficial to encourage foreign colonization.

Daqin now has a population of more than 80 million, although there are more than 20 million naturalized barbarians and slaves, but there are still more than 50 million Han people, thanks to the imperial court's household registration ability, in recent years, all the Han people in the world have been cleared out, there are no hidden households and no fugitives, even those Han slaves in the past, the imperial court has released them all in recent years, and moved them to the frontier to grant land and land.

Many singles were married by the imperial court and formed families, some of which were impossible to marry in the past, but now they are married. Even if they are poor and dying beggars are disabled, when they go to the borderlands, the court will find a way to get them Hu Nu to marry them.

When Hu Nu married a Han husband, she became naturalized and naturalized, and the children she gave birth to naturally became Han Chinese.

In this regard, there is nothing to choose freely, it is impossible for a Goguryeo woman to retain the identity of the Goguryeo tribe after marrying a Han Chinese, and it is impossible to say that the children they give birth to can freely choose their father's clan or their mother's clan, let alone any other Huyi barbarian tribe that can have any preferential treatment.

Even those barbarians in the border areas have to change their land and return to the stream, find a way to naturalize them, let them become Zhuxia, how can they still make the Han bloodline finally become barbarians.

In this case, not to mention much, it is hardly a problem for the population to exceed 100 million in twenty or thirty years. As far as the productive forces of this era are concerned, in fact, they can only support a hundred million people, and no matter how much, it is very dangerous.

If these newly conquered areas of the frontier are developed, then it may be possible to feed tens of millions of people, but it is impossible to fully develop them in a short period of time.

So, you have to get the population out.

In addition to the development led by the imperial court, the private sector must also be involved.

Luo Cheng's arrangements actually implied that he was not very worried about the future development led by the imperial court, not that he didn't believe in himself, but that he was worried that after he left one day, Prince Jiawen would not be able to take it after he took over.

In history, the biggest root cause of the Anshi Rebellion of the Tang Dynasty was actually that the speed of the Tang Dynasty's external development was too fast, and the follow-up management of the imperial court was not rooted and out of touch.

In the era of Li Longji, the frontier army was very strong, but although the imperial court had great martial arts in external development, it could not keep up with the follow-up, or the return of the war was not proportional to the effort, which exacerbated the internal contradictions, and finally there was the Anshi Rebellion.

Prince Jiawen's ability is average, and Luo Cheng is worried that if he dies, the prince will control Daqin, and it will be difficult to maintain the balance that is still extremely difficult under the current continuous development. That's why he hoped that in the future, this kind of task of opening up the outside world would be transferred from the hands of the imperial court to the people.

It is mainly based on civil forces, and it is good for the imperial court to be in the rear.

"To be honest, I'm not worried about those powerful foreign colonization, and the tail will not be big in the future, even if they really will be outside the territory in the future and become a country of their own, in fact, it's nothing, no matter what, they also have the same root as us, right? Great Qin may be two hundred years, maybe three or five hundred years, but it will eventually be replaced by other dynasties, I just hope that in the future, it will still be our Han family that overthrows Great Qin and replaces it, not some Rong Di or barbarians! ”

"In this way, at least even if Great Qin is dead, but the Han world is not dead, and Chinese civilization can still be passed on from generation to generation, don't you say?"

Wei Zheng was stunned, he had never thought that which founding emperor would think about the demise of the dynasty in two or three hundred years, this was too far away.

"Your Majesty never thought about it, let Great Qin be eternal?"

"Eternal? Of course, it would be good if it could be for thousands of generations, Qin Shi Huang was called the emperor, and he also thought about thousands of generations, so he called the first emperor, his son is the second, and his grandson will be the third in the future, but in fact, Qin II died. The Zhou Dynasty had 800 years of the world, but in fact, how many years did Zhou Tianzi really control the world? ”

"The Han Dynasty said that it was 400 years, but wasn't there a new dynasty in the middle? I don't believe in thousands of generations, it would be good to be able to do two or three hundred years, I only hope that Daqin can let China go further in these two or three hundred years, and no longer be limited to the small circle of the Central Plains. ”

Not only did he colonize and develop, but Luo Cheng also encouraged the powerful people of the Central Plains to go to the newly developed places such as Andong, Anxi, Yunnan and other places, where the newly conquered places seriously lacked Han people.

It was only Baekje, which Xu Shiji had just conquered, where there were now more than 3 million Baekje and Goguryeo people, and the imperial court planned to eliminate one-third of the aborigines, and then move more than one million Han Chinese. In this way, it is possible to really let the Han people gain a foothold there, but it is not easy to gather a million people from the Central Plains now.

And it's not just Andong that needs immigrants, but many places such as Yunnan, Quang Nam, Liuqiu, and Xishan are in great need of immigrants.

The imperial court organized immigrants in the past, but many places are still poor and white, and it is far from enough to rely on the power of the imperial court, and it is still necessary to rely on the power of the people, especially the power of these powerful landlords and wealthy merchants.

"In order to encourage and attract these people to invest in the border land, I thought that we could promise some attractive benefits to these powerful people, for example, for those who have invested in the border land and even settled down, we can make an exception to choose their children to be granted the position of exile officials, so that they can work in the border government. If you do your job well and the assessment results are excellent, you can be promoted to the stream. ”

"Sage, in this way, I am afraid that the power of the nobles and nobles will be further expanded."

"As long as you ensure the core basic plate of the Central Plains, you are not afraid."

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