Chapter 740: Manpower
The empire looked rich, powerful, and unbeatable. But when he went out to build a vassal country and had his own foundation, Xu Daixuan found that the empire actually lacked everything and nothing.
For example, money.
The financial situation of the empire is much better than that of all dynasties, and a large amount of investment has been spent, and I have not seen my father and grandfather strictly economize, after all, the palace alone has been built in three places.
All kinds of great projects that can be called labor and money in previous dynasties have never been stopped, only now it is known that the empire has made great efforts to control the Yellow River every year, the canal has to be desilted, and all the water conservancy projects in the world have to be renovated every year, and there are thousands of miles of waterways to be renovated every year.
To this end, the mobilized water workers maintained more than two million people all year round, with many more families and millions of slaves.
This kind of consumption can be maintained all year round, and the most powerful dynasties in the past should also be dragged down.
But the empire has never had a fiscal deficit, nor has it ever had a deficit, and there is even a fiscal surplus of more than 70 million, close to 80 million, every year.
It looks like the empire is rich, right?
That's fake!
Xu Daixuan felt more and more that the annual financial surplus of 80 million taels was actually nothing.
After all, now the funds of the various ministries of the empire are calculated in the form of 100 million!
According to the traditional concept, three years of abundance should be stored for one year. There are 80 million taels left every year, and it can be counted as seven to reserve a year's financial expenditure!
Therefore, it is almost impossible for a subject country like its own Great Qin to get more economic support from its home country in addition to the fiscal budget at the beginning of the year.
If you only save 80 million a year, if your subject country wants to leave a little, the empire's own ability to resist risks will decrease a little, and the cabinet that picks the door will definitely not agree.
The same is true for the demographic aspect.
Speaking of which, the empire has a population of 85 million, which is really a lot, but in fact, if you really have to calculate it carefully, the core public and civilian population is only 67 million, and the others are ordinary people and slaves who are not able to use it and dare not use it.
Among the 67 million core population, excluding the elderly and children, there is not much left, and the empire is a country that needs people everywhere - needless to say, farming is a large occupation of the population in any era.
Then, the newly opened factory, which does not need hundreds or thousands of laborers? Water conservancy is built every year, occupying 2 million Zhuang men every year, as well as their families, and new villages and towns are about to form near many construction sites.
There is a shortage of people, a very short of people.
The cabinet itself is still constantly shouting about the lack of personnel, how can it be possible to squeeze out the population to support these subject countries?
Therefore, when he learned that the empire had exiled a large number of green forests, and that it was possible that more gentry and wealthy families would be exiled in the next few years, Xu Daixuan immediately convened a meeting of the main important ministers of the Qin State, and wanted to do everything possible to recruit these people to the Qin State!
Because, even if it is an exile, as long as it is a Han Chinese, it is also a valuable asset. You must know that in order to increase the number of its core population, Xu Daixuan counted all the people in the Western Regions who have a little Han blood as Han people!
Most of these people are the lonely and loyal descendants of the Han family who were isolated in the pre-Tang Dynasty, and it is also a singable story to tell, but they have been isolated in the Western Regions for hundreds of years, and these people may have to go up for more than ten generations to find out the real Han ancestors.
Xu Daixuan has no conditions to dislike it, as long as he can confirm that there is a trace of Han family blood, the cabinet will admit it or not, at least Daqin will definitely admit it!
Even so, there were still no more than 80,000 Han people in Qin, of which Zhuangding and Banding barely exceeded 30,000.
Xu Daixuan didn't even care about the defense of men and women, so much so that some young and middle-aged Han women who learned to bow and horses were also incorporated into the army, and even allowed them to become officials!
This is all forced, you know, just Yulong Jiechi, there are 800,000 flower lama mold popular! And Zuo Helin, who was sealed here, had no more than 700 Han soldiers under his command, and even if he added the Waifan soldiers, it did not exceed 4,000.
Although the Khwarazm people were not Parsians, they were only vassal states that paid tribute to Pars in the past, and now that they have surrendered to Great Qin, they should not have any sense of belonging to Pars.
But this disparity in population ratio was so great that anyone would feel that it was dangerous, so that Zuo Helin never dared to live in the Jade Dragon Jie Chicheng, but chose to build a new castle outside the city closer to the water source, and only sent people to the city when taxes were collected.
This made Jade Dragon Jiechi a de facto independent kingdom.
Not only the Jade Dragon Jiechi, but also within the territory of Great Qin, there are many, many more such situations.
Therefore, Xu Daixuan now understands why his father pays so much attention to women's rights, if he still lets young women teach their husbands and children at home as before, it is equivalent to tens of millions of less labor for the empire!
Not to mention anything else, what to fill the pit of nearly 1,000 textile factories and nearly one million female textile workers across the country?
"All Han women, equal pay for work, and rewards for meritorious service!"
In order to squeeze every ounce of strength, the Qin State, which was in the battlefield, properly liberated women's rights more than the local ones, and even female military nobles have appeared at present!
Here's the thing, a few months ago, taking advantage of the fact that the main force of the Qin army was rushing to the front line and the rear was empty, a Pars slave rebellion broke out in Shattered Leaf City.
At that time, the entire Broken Leaf fell almost overnight, and only the military hospital in Broken Leaf City had just arrived that day with a team of volunteer medical teams from the country.
At that time, the hospital, led by a head nurse named Jin Ming, cobbled together a force of 200 doctors, nurses and wounded men, blocked the gate, and held it with muskets.
This rabble actually held out for two whole days, until Zuo Helin led the cavalry troops to quickly return from the front line to suppress the rebellion.
After the rebellion was quelled, Jin Ming, the head nurse of the Broken Leaf Military Hospital, was named a baroness in charge of 300 slaves by the King of Qin, and was given 5,000 taels.
Okay, okay, there are indeed people in this, but people do have enough credit to be sealed, aren't they?
Xu Daixuan hopes to use Xiaojin as an example to let those exiled knights in China know that Daqin is a good place and opportunities abound.
After all, among the knights, there are not a lot of female heroes, and they usually have some force, and when they come to the Qin State, it is definitely a good supplement.
And the women are coming, if the male knights have a choice, will they not come?
These chivalrous people are unstable elements to the empire, and they are fragrant and sweet to the Qin State, not only them, but also other exiles, and Xu Daixuan will not refuse.
"As long as it's a Han Chinese!"
Xu Daixuan once again emphasized:
"We want men, women, and children!"
Xiao Jin's matter reminded King Qin that as long as there was a musket, even a child or an old man would have a chance to kill a warrior who had been trained in swordsmanship for twenty years!
When the main force of the Qin army went on another expedition, the elderly, women, and children who remained at home could temporarily live together and rely on muskets to deter Xiaoxiao.
In that case, the Qin army would have a lot less worries.