Chapter 680: Manpower Crisis
Thinking like wildfire, thinking wildly, Han Qi did not answer Ding Haijun's request head-on, but asked him to stay, he and his staff spent 3 days deducing everything, and finally decided to do it.
In this way, in the history of the Northern Song Dynasty's Northern Expedition, the most unknown scene appeared, a million people were actually sold by Han Qi, which has also become a point that political enemies have always grasped, but the great achievements of the Northern Expedition and the entire Youyun made Han Qi directly invincible, and he was not a Song person, nor a massacre, but a job for them, which can also be proved by the Dinghai Navy that these people are still alive.
This is later, although the political enemies have been attacking the fortifications, they have not suffered any damage to Han Qi, Han Qi has been the prime minister for almost 10 years, until the Dinghai Navy reappeared in front of the Northern Song Dynasty, revealing the grandeur of the end.
The point of population was not specifically proposed by Zhao Xin, but was made through a certain analysis of the administrative system of the navy.
During the Northern Expedition of the Northern Song Dynasty, the Ding Navy conducted an analysis, and with the support of the sea ships of the Ding Navy, the Northern Song Dynasty's Northern Expedition was very likely to succeed.
However, after the Northern Expedition, the management of the occupied territories was a very difficult point for the current government of the Northern Song Dynasty.
If it was in the past few decades, this would have been easy to do, Youyun has not been completely separated, and Song Taizu also has a lot of experience in the management of occupied areas.
But now, these two are not available, although it is said that the main body of Youyun is still the Han people, but this is already the Han people who have been ruled by the Khitan for many years, and they did not welcome the Northern Song Dynasty as those officials said.
In the beginning, because of the relationship between military management, there will be no and no problems, but what about later?
After the disruption, it was a time of war, the north had been peaceful for a long time, and suddenly encountered war, its own living conditions would decline, plus the Northern Song Dynasty itself had many problems, it was impossible to the north, the clouds here, tilted too much, almost inevitably contradictions.
It can be said unceremoniously that in the next 10 or 20 years, uprisings and wars on the side of Youyun will become a frequent occurrence.
If Zhao Xin is some kind of careerist, or the entire Dinghai Navy is like this, seeking to seize the highest position, he will not care about this matter at all, for them, the more chaotic the Northern Song Dynasty, the better, and even the Northern Expedition of the Northern Song Dynasty will not support it, but will work the side of the Liao State, and even the Northern Song Dynasty Northern Expedition fails, in a sense, it is a good thing for the Dinghai Navy.
But whether it is Zhao Xin or Ding Haijun itself, they have already transcended this level, and in the face of absolute strength, many things can be ignored.
For example, at the peak of the European and American colonizers at that time, Africa was divided into fifty or sixty countries, or even more than a hundred countries, for these colonizers, is there a difference, two African countries combined into one, and the territory and power were doubled, but in the face of the gap that almost looked up, such an improvement was useless.
After witnessing the terrible sea ships and the characteristics of thermal weapons, let alone a Northern Song Dynasty, as long as artillery and muskets were popularized, and all the elites of the Northern Song Dynasty, Liao State, and Western Xia were pulled out to fight, they were not enough hot weapons to fight.
What is logistics, to be exact, it is money, it is materials, in the current relationship with the Northern Song Dynasty, raw materials are not lacking, and what the navy lacks is the people who process raw materials into materials and into various commodities.
From the beginning of its establishment, the Dinghai Navy has been very eager for population, and the Dinghai Navy has gradually developed from a small island with a radius of 300 square kilometers to a city with a population of 2 million or 2.5 million.
This year, the Navy will still approve the Spring Festival holiday on a large scale, and even in Haizhou, at least 5,000 horse-drawn carriages will be specially arranged to transport personnel.
In the past two years, due to the expansion of the commercial scale of the Dinghai Navy, the infrastructure construction in Haizhou has also been greatly strengthened.
Building bridges and building roads was one of the achievements of local officials, and with the need for the navy to determine the need, the roads began to spread under the premise that reinforced concrete began to spread.
Roads and transportation are always one of the bloodlines of industry, not only to speed up the transportation of goods and raw materials, but also to the transportation of people.
Before, the influence of the Dinghai Navy was only within 500 miles of Haizhou as the center, and such a distance was a long distance for the people in the feudal era.
If you walk, it will take more than half a month, and what kind of problems will you encounter in the middle, even if you are a frequent trader, 500 miles is not a very short distance.
But now, with the passage of roads, basically, all the states and counties around Haizhou have renovated the official roads within a radius of 500 miles, and horse-drawn carriages can travel at a speed of 30-40 miles on the smooth official roads, which means that 500 miles is only a day, a maximum of two days.
Speed, the role of long-distance travel, began to come to the fore, depending on the influence of the navy, the scope of recruitment, once again expanded, roughly to the extent that Haizhou is 1,000 miles away.
It's twice as much, but the whole area is four times as much, and similarly, it's densely populated and covers more people.
Although the Northern Song Dynasty is very developed, but the development is on the whole, even in Bianliang, Tokyo, there are a lot of poor people, not to mention in such a remote place as Haizhou, 1000 miles around Haizhou, almost radiating to the north bank of the Yangtze River, this piece is also the entire Northern Song Dynasty, a relatively densely populated place.
It's just that in this beautiful land of fish and rice, there are still people who can't get by, and there are more.
According to the estimates of the officials of the Dinghai Navy, if everything goes well during this year's New Year's holiday, the population of the Dinghai Navy will be between 2 million and 3 million, and the population of the Dinghai Navy will exceed 5 million in history.
This is a very large number, but it is also a very node number, and this node is finally produced after a long period of research.
The Northern Song Dynasty had a total population of hundreds of millions, but this hundreds of millions was on a huge land area, more than 3 million square kilometers of land, which could not be called huge in terms of various dynasties in history, but it was definitely not small.
At present, Haizhou is within a radius of 1,000 kilometers, which is a relatively densely populated area, but the total population will definitely not exceed 20 million, and a quarter of the 20 million population will be attracted to the Dinghai Navy, which is already a limit, and if there are more, say one-third, or even one-half, the impact will be greater.
The management of the Northern Song Dynasty was not as strict as in later generations, to every block and every village, and the government decrees were often delegated to the county, but the permanent population of a county was suddenly reduced by a quarter, and the impact on the entire county had already appeared.
In fact, as early as one-tenth of the time, it will appear, for Pinghe Jiangnan, the poor population accounts for one-tenth, which is already a quite staggering number, when this one-tenth of the poor people leaves, for these grassroots counties, it is very good.
These poor people, for the counties of the Northern Song Dynasty, have almost no contribution, but they will lag behind, when people can't survive, they can do anything, maybe some of them will rise to the level of crime and sanctions, but most of them are small mistakes.
These small mistakes will cause chaos in the entire management, and even affect the county governance.
Without these people, the county order will not only not block it, but will welcome it, which is also the fundamental reason why the entire Huainan East and West Road has been well governed recently.
But when these people are gone, some of them except for the lowest of them begin to leave, and when the loss of the population reaches one-fifth, the effects have already begun to appear, and when agriculture is busy, there will be a shortage of labor, but this phenomenon is not so obvious as before.
But on this basis, when it is lost, that is, when it reaches a quarter, or even a third, the problem of labor begins to appear completely.
Feudal society, agrarian civilization, farming and farming, is the focus of the focus, when mechanization is not popular, manpower is always the biggest user.
A quarter of the node, which is supported by a lot of data, including the help of the Navy to improve production efficiency and increase the proportion of livestock use, is derived, otherwise, one in five will have problems.
But no matter how much it is, even if there are many production efficiencies, the use of livestock, there is no way, almost certainly, it will cause fluctuations, when large areas of states and counties have reduced grain production, and under the premise of insufficient taxes, the higher levels will not pay attention.
The development of the Dinghai Navy, up to now, everything is very smooth, everything is in accordance with Zhao Xin's layout, in an orderly manner, but after real in-depth research, it is found that the Dinghai Navy is currently a castle on the sand dunes.
It seems that the prosperous Dinghai can create countless values, once the foundation of the Northern Song Dynasty is missing, it will be nothing, and even in the event of a head-on conflict, how many of these people will remain.
Do not touch the bottom line, as far as possible not to be valued by the Northern Song Dynasty, this is the current direction of development, only by concentrating on development, 5 years, 10 years, or even longer, the Ding Navy can lay a solid foundation, at the very least, the Ding Navy's sense of population identity began to rise, even if it is opposed to the Northern Song Dynasty, there will be no problem, and even the foundation will not be lost.
Industry, the most important question, in fact, is still in the population, why industry creates more value than agriculture, because the efficiency of the unit population is higher, and the capacity of the whole plate is also greater, without the population, it is impossible to expand.
Perhaps, on the small island of Dinghai, it can accommodate a population of 5 million, which is already good, but now, the Dinghai Navy has taken the Ryukyus, and in the future, there will be Hainan and the islands in the north, the expansion of land, the placement of industry, the need for more people.
In the contradiction between development and future trends, population has become a problem that must be solved, and it has become one of the most important problems in the navy.
Through careful analysis of various data, the data of 5 million was finally obtained, which is very different from the future of the needs of the navy, and the requirements of the navy for the population must be as much as possible, but the way of the population needs to be carefully considered.
The largest population acquisition area, of course, is the Northern Song Dynasty, in the current 1,000 miles of naval radiation, the maximum limit is 5 million, but what if the radiation area increases?
For example, build more official roads, make transportation more developed, and increase the radiation area from 1,000 miles to 1,500 miles, or even 2,000 miles, so that there will be more people in the area, and more people can be recruited.
This is a direction, in fact, it is being done, but because it is too far away from the Dinghai Navy, it is not too much to buy, some agree, some disagree, unlike the vicinity of Haizhou, basically they can get benefits from the cargo transportation of the Dinghai Navy, and there are many people who agree.
This is a direction, but the growth is not much, for this reason, the Ding Navy has thought of other ideas, on the island, because of the natural conditions and natural relations, there are a lot of natives, searching for the local natives in the Ryukyus, this is what the Ryukyus have been doing, but the number of natives is not much, in the Ryukyus, even if it is to strengthen the search efforts, it can add hundreds of thousands to the Dinghai Navy, it is already a limit, no more, it is not very likely.
Searching for the natives of Southeast Asia, Indochina and Indonesia may be a direction in the future, and now, given that there are more options, the Navy will not do this.
At this juncture, the appearance of the clouds made Ding Haijun notice.
Leaving such a population of more than one million is not very conspicuous for the Northern Song Dynasty, and even having to carry the burden of managing them may waste more than a few million, but in the Dinghai Navy, there will be no problem.
Although it is difficult to solve national contradictions or other problems in the Dinghai Navy, there is one thing in the Dinghai Navy, which the Northern Song Dynasty does not have, and the treatment is good.
Even the poor people who are so poor that there is no tile on the top, and the poor people who stand in the land in the afternoon, and even some disabilities, as long as they do not affect their work, can live better than the small landlords when they arrive at the Dinghai Navy, not to mention these hands and feet, some treatment, the Northern Song Dynasty can't afford it, because the total cost is too much, but the Dinghai Navy can afford it.
The gap between the secondary industry and the primary industry, which swept across the entire Northern Song Dynasty, gave the navy confidence.
Any grievances are often treated differently, or they can't survive, and they will erupt, and when the treatment is better than that of ordinary people, or even considered rich, those little contradictions are nothing.
The acquisition of more than one million manpower, it can be said that it is the largest single acquisition of the Dinghai Navy in the next few years, which is very useful for alleviating the labor shortage of the Dinghai Navy, and can directly let the population of the Dinghai Navy go to a higher level, so it will open such favorable conditions, once the personnel of the entire northern land are included, the Dinghai Navy will pay more than 30 million yuan at least in terms of funds, not to mention other materials.
After thinking about it for a few days, Han Qi finally agreed that this settling-in allowance was of course impossible to give to those Northlanders, but it was only necessary to set the navy to ensure their safety, and it was best to exchange the funds for supplies.
These Dinghai have agreed, and in this way, an agreement involving more than one million people was signed, Han Qi would cooperate with Youzhou here, and the Dinghai Navy would be responsible for receiving and transshipment, forming a complete chain.