Li Jing returned to Nanhai City.

Now he is busy and can only sleep for two hours every day, as the pacification envoy of the Lingnan Three Dao Sutra, although the rebellion of Ning and others has been quelled, it is not easy to deal with the aftermath.

Unless the imperial court can follow the example of the previous dynasty and implement a system of restraint on Lingnan, no households, no land, no taxes, no military government, and appoint those handsome and handsome men as county officials, and only collect a symbolic tribute every year.

It's not possible after all.

"Since the Han Dynasty, although Lingnan has been included in the central territory, it has not been included in the imperial court household statistics, nor has it been taxed for seven or eight hundred years."

The county officials said to Li Jing.

"How many Han people are there in Lingnan Sandao?"

"Less than 100,000."

"Then how many slang barbarians are there in the Lingnan Three Provinces?"

"There is no exact number, because there has never been an official count, but it is expected that there will be no less than two or three million people. When Mrs. Xian was in charge of Feng Xian's two families, she commanded Qiantong with a population of hundreds of thousands. And Feng Xian's two families only occupy two or three counties. The farther west, the more slang barbarians increased, and the more they did not abide by the king's law and did not obey the teachings. ”

Li Jing nodded, in this way, the Lingnan barbarians are at least twenty or thirty times that of the Han people, or even more, and even if there are less than 100,000 Han people, many of them have actually been mixed with Bai Yue for I don't know how many generations, and many of them are even no different from those familiar slang, with the same broken hair tattoos and speaking in the vernacular.

Nowadays, although the imperial court has set up three provinces in Lingnan, 20 counties, and hundreds of counties, it is only a shelf, except for Nanhai County, Guilin County and Jiaozhi County, because they are the central and critical places of the previous dynasties to control Lingnan, so they have stronger control, and other places are not at all about governance.

"Now that the seventy-two government barracks have been deployed, the next step is to build the camp fort, the actual battalion soldiers, the construction of the post station, and the military are being carried out in an orderly manner, but if we don't even know how many barbarians there are, then the next change of land and return to the stream will not be mentioned."

Checking the household registers and drawing maps were the basis of the rule.

Just like when the soldiers are forced to surrender when they are forced to surrender, they must first present the household registration atlas and the map of the mountains and rivers.

"Xuanshuai, the three roads of Lingnan, thousands of streams and mountains, and countless alliances of streams, thousands of large families, and dozens of small mountains are united, these bureaucrats are based on the mountains and valleys, and they used to be not subordinate to each other, and they have more than enough vendettas, but now I am afraid that they may not be willing to obey the king."

Li Jing ignored this.

"Feng Chenning and the others have only been in Lingnan for a few generations, but don't they also order the slang bureaucrats in each place to obey?"

"Xuan Shuai, even if the Feng family marries the Xian family, the leader of the slang people, the slang people will not return to their hometowns because of this."

The slang refused to be naturalized because naturalization meant paying taxes and paying military service.

"Gotta figure it out!"

If you can't even grasp the hukou, then don't talk about anything else.

"This, send people to the Xitong Alliance, to inform those big and small chiefs, and the elders, let them come to the South China Sea, and say that this marshal represents the imperial court and wants to ally with them."

"Huimeng?"

"Those who come, the marshal will grant them official ranks on behalf of the court, and those who do not come will be against the court and have bad intentions, and the marshal will lead the army to recruit and suppress."

All the officials were stunned, didn't they say that they would no longer give officials to these chiefs, why did they want to award officials now?

"This official is not another official, but only a loose official rank, and he is not a real minister." Li Jing explained.

There is still a great difference between a loose official and a professional official, a loose official is only equivalent to a rank, enjoying some corresponding treatment and privileges, while a professional official is equivalent to managing a certain piece of affairs, so one is a rank and the other is a post, and there is a staff to manage affairs.

For these slang leaders who call themselves Qu Shuai, Du Lao, or Chieftain, the imperial court will never easily grant them the posts of Taishou and County Commander, but it is not in the way to give them the rank of civil and military officials.

"So what are you talking about?"

"On the grounds that Ben Shuai wants to reconcile old grievances for Zhuxitong and demarcate the border for them, he summoned them to come."

As long as the leaders of these big and small creek alliances come and sit together, Li Jing will have a chance.

In the name of mediation, negotiate with them to demarcate the border. At that time, in the name of trade and trade, these chiefs of the streams can be organized and asked to help build a few roads.

"Take your time, we are not in a hurry, Ben Shuai has asked His Majesty for a will, as long as these slang officials are willing to be naturalized, then the imperial court will recognize the mountains, forests and fields they occupy, and exempt them from two taxes for five years, and after five years, they can also pay half a tax for another five years."

"Xuan Shuai, even if it is tax exemption for ten years, they may not be willing, after all, they have never paid taxes before."

"Don't rush to conclusions, step by step, from this year, the imperial court will exempt the chieftains of Xitong from all over the country from paying tribute, and they don't need to accept any more local products."

There was an older eight-rank official who sat there and listened for a long time, but he came up with a good idea.

"Xuan Shuai, slang people are good at fishing, wingmen are good at hunting, and they can farm to some extent, but the technology is backward, slash and burn, and even cattle farming. I think it would be counterproductive for the imperial court to force them to become naturalized, so it would be better to lure them to their advantage. For example, if a person is willing to become a naturalized citizen, the court will not only recognize their original land, but if his land is less than 100 acres, we can also set aside another piece of wasteland for them to be a permanent business, making up 100 acres. ”

"In addition, as long as they are naturalized, the government can also send people to direct them to use cattle for ploughing, and sell them better farming tools, and even, after naturalization, if there are people in the family who are over sixty years old, or under the age of ten, the government can give them some salt free of charge every year."

"There is no need for more, an old man or child gives him three or five catties of salt a year, which is not a big cost, but which slang family does not have old people and children, if there are three or four old people and children in a family, there are twenty or thirty catties of salt a year, this good thing for nothing, I believe it will be very tempting."

The three provinces of Lingnan are all close to the sea, and the imperial court has set up several salt farms here, which can not only supply the needs of Lingnan, but even the salt of Lingnan can be transported and sold in Jiangnan, Central Plains and other places, and even Linyi is also their market. The cost of salt is very low, and it is only a bucket of ten cents directly from the salt farmers, which still leaves enough profit for the salt farmers.

Even if a slang household subsidizes them for two or three buckets of salt a year, it is only twenty or thirty dollars, and hundreds of thousands of households are fully subsidized, and there is not much money.

As for the issue of salt tax, Lingnan is still very chaotic now.

However, it cost some money to transport, but the official said that the government only needed to send the salt to the counties, and then let the mountains themselves go to the counties to transport it back, and even let the barbarians get it themselves.

"That's a good idea, give it a try."

Li Jing appreciated that as long as you put your heart into it, there are always more ways than difficulties.

In the two Lingnan Wars, the Great Qin court actually defeated not the slang barbarians, but the Han people who had led these barbarians in the past, they were considered local representatives, and now the imperial court did not need these people to represent the middle, and directly came to lead these southern barbarians.

"According to this line of thinking, we can also lure these Xitong barbarian leaders to their advantage. For example, give them official ranks, do business with them, and even give them a little agency power to trade. Li Jing said.

"Xuan Shuai is smart!" A group of officials patted each other, but Li Jing was not happy, "All the officials went back and wrote a report and handed it in, putting forward their own suggestions." ”