After Yuan Taizuo selected 10,000 Goguryeo soldiers from Xuansu County and sent them to Liaodong City to join the campaign, the eldest grandson Shunde found Yuan Taizuo.

"After I came to Xuansu, I found that the county is now ruined, the people are famine, and everyone is very miserable."

Yuan Taizuo then said, we have been very hard in the past few years, and I hope that Jun Cheng can tell His Royal Highness King Qin the truth about the situation here.

"Yuanzhijun, the counties of Liaodong used to be more desolate than here, but now, it has become a granary, and it is even called the south of the Yangtze River. Why? In recent years, His Royal Highness the King of Qin has guarded Liaodong, sharpened his efforts in the tuntian outside the Guanwai, reclaimed the tuntian, and reduced the labor force, so that the people can cultivate the fields with peace of mind, and naturally there will be good returns. ”

"Our Xuanyu County is on the west bank of the Yalu River, with a very wide territory, although there are many mountains, but there are still many arable places in the valleys. Moreover, now that there is peace outside the customs and there is no war, we can also vigorously develop industry and commerce in the future. You see, now on the side of King Qin, there is a big border market, and the annual commercial tax and monopoly tax are very amazing. ”

Yuan Taizuo listened quietly, not knowing what this county man wanted to say, but he must have a purpose.

On the one hand, Liaodong said that he would enter the customs to quell the chaos and let him send troops to join the expedition, but on the other hand, he asked the eldest grandson Shunde to bring a box of 4,000 people.

"Yuan's envoy, you and I are now the chief officials and second officials of this Xuanwu County, and we have the responsibility to develop this Xuanwu County well, so that it can become a peaceful township where the people can live and work in peace and contentment, and have more food and clothing. If we can't do it, it will be a dereliction of duty on our part, and we will be worthy of the trust of His Royal Highness King Qin. ”

"Then what are the plans of the eldest grandson?"

The eldest grandson, Shunde, took the opportunity to say, saying that I am not traveling around these days, I am checking the people's conditions in various places and understanding the environment of each county.

We have a lot of mountains here, but we still have land, but it has been dragged down by the war in the past few years.

It also talks about the many mountain fortresses in Xuansu County.

He pointed out that these mountain fortresses were not suitable for agricultural production, let alone for the development of land reclamation and handicrafts and commerce. Although the mountain city has great geographical advantages in the military, it is often located on the mountain, which is both dangerous and small, and it is inconvenient to drink water, build houses, and pass, let alone cultivate the land and do business.

Therefore, he suggested that the current plan of the other counties in Liaodong should be followed.

"Although we do not have a military government in Xuanwu County, we have a military establishment of county soldiers, which is the same as the establishment of the loyal military army, and it is also the establishment of six compartments and one military department, so we can also follow the same as over there, one compartment is stationed in a military city, the central military department is stationed in the inner city of this county city, and the other six compartments are stationed in one city."

The six compartments of this army were stationed in seven large mountain cities, and then four regiments under each compartment were stationed in one fort.

In this way, it is the Seventh Army City and the Twenty-Eighth Army Fort.

"In addition to the Seventh Army's fort in the 28th Army, there is no need to divide troops into garrisons in the remaining 200 small and medium-sized mountain cities, but only set up military stations and beacons in key places, and each station is three or five people or a group of people."

The meaning of the eldest grandson Shunde is to abolish all the hundreds of mountain cities in Goguryeo, large and small, except for some mountain cities that are half mountainous and half flat, or those that are valley-type mountain cities.

Move all the people inside to the more open plains.

Let them set up tunzhuang, reclaim barren tuntian, and set up pastures in mountainous areas with little land, and raise cattle, horses, and sheep.

"In the past, this practice of building villages everywhere and building cities all over the mountains is no longer suitable for the needs of today's Xuansu, and we don't need to keep these mountain cities of the confrontation era now, right? We, Goguryeo, have no intention of using these mountain cities to resist the imperial court now, right? ”

Two right, Yuan Taizuo, who asked, broke out in a cold sweat in his heart.

He certainly can't say he's right.

But if it is really as the eldest grandson Shunde said, only the seven major cities and twenty-eight military forts are retained, then after hundreds of large and small mountain cities are abandoned, this is naturally equivalent to the Yuan clan's self-abandonment.

Previously, he had left only 24,000 county soldiers, and the rest took back their weapons and armor and disbanded and returned to their hometowns.

Then Luo Cheng transferred 10,000 of his soldiers, leaving only 14,000 soldiers.

According to the four-way law, of these 14,000 people, only 3,500 were on duty. And the more than 10,000 people who were not on duty were in the township, but their weapons were locked in the armor of the military city.

If he destroyed and abandoned those large and small mountain fortresses now, and moved to the flat valley where there was no danger to defend and built a flat city, once something happened, he couldn't imagine what would happen?

In the past 700 years, Goguryeo has been able to stand tall in Liaodong, and the biggest reliance is on these mountain fortresses.

"Juncheng, hundreds of mountain cities, this is the home of the people for hundreds of years, if it is abandoned and destroyed, everyone will be reluctant."

The eldest grandson Shunde smiled.

"Is it that the people of Xuansu County are reluctant, or are you reluctant to make the Yuan Envoy yourself?"

He smiled with a knife.

"Moving down the mountain is actually a benefit, a great benefit, you said to stay in the mountain city, life is inconvenient, there are few fields on the side, it is very inconvenient to come out to farm, in the long run, how can everyone get rich and good? Our King of Qin has a saying that often puts on his lips, saying that if you want to get rich, you must first build roads. When the road is built, wealth will naturally gather. ”

"We don't have to stick to those uninhabitable mountain towns, we can live on flat land, we can build bigger houses, and we can bring a small yard, wouldn't it be more comfortable to live in. In addition, if you build a village on the edge of the flat land that is suitable for farming, it is also convenient to cultivate and produce, and you can plant more fields. ”

Of course, the county government can also take the lead in developing some industries.

If you build roads, you can trade, and the goods from outside can come in, the prices will be cheaper, and the special products and minerals here can also be developed and sold.

Does Goguryeo have any specialties?

Of course, there are, the main ones are ginseng, mink, deer, and then there are fox skins, deer skins, as well as stallions, war horses, and pearls, all kinds of mountain delicacies, etc., of course, beauty is also a specialty.

In addition, gold, silver, copper, and iron are also produced by some mineral deposits.

The eldest grandson, Shunde, hoped that Yuan Taizuo would implement the policy of going down the mountain for the Goguryeo people in Xuansu County, so that the Goguryeo people would come down from the mountain city, establish a tunzhuang on the flat land, and implement the tuntian system.

"But many lands have lords." The Yuan clan used this as a reason to excuse himself.

"It doesn't hurt if you have a master, we can carry out the registration action of measuring fields in the whole county, and all the fields will be cleared, and if you have a master, please take out the land deed and land deed, and then register it in the yamen, and replace it with a new deed. After that, these fields were rented and paid according to the laws of the court. ”

"And the land of the unowned, as well as the fields of the Goguryeo royal family and the government in the past, as well as the land of the sinners who fought against our Celestial Empire, of course, all have to go to the officials, and these public lands that have entered the officials, we can give them to the landless people, or we can rent them to the people."

Yuan Taizuo also said that because of the previous war, a large number of people who fled from Liaodong, Pyongyang and other places gathered in Xuansu County, and there are more than 3 million people in one county.

"This is not difficult, now that the counties of Liaodong are short of population, we can mobilize some landless Goguryeo people to move to the counties of Fuyu New Town in Lushun, Liaodong, Liaoxi, and go to Tuntian."

Yuan Taizuo was pushed against the wall by the eldest grandson Shunde, unable to advance or retreat, and his face was wrinkled like a chrysanthemum.