[Third update, to continue tomorrow]

Huang Shang sorted out the clues of Yunnan Road, and when he returned to Jingshi, it was already a new year.

The ten prefectures of Yunnan, in terms of political affairs, belong to Chengdu Fulu. But militarily, it belongs to Yunnan Road.

According to the old practice of Zhang Dian and Han Gang sending troops to destroy Jiaozhi, the coach Kumamoto returned to Beijing, and his deputy Huang Shang became the first pacification envoy of Yunnan Road, and also the first governor of Lizhou, the former Dali Mansion.

The Shanyan Mansion on the shore of Dianchi Lake was named Queensland when it was restored to the Tang Dynasty, while the Dali Mansion on the shore of Erhai Lake was Lizhou, and the two state mansions were controlled by the imperial court, which was the focus of immigration. The rest of the states are mainly fetters, and in one state, except for the attached county that controls the main road, the others are all fetters and states.

For those southwestern Tibetan regions who have made great contributions, the imperial court replaced the rewards with bright official robes, and the best land in Dali was occupied by the Han people, and the rest of the land was allocated to them.

Huang Shang spent a lot of energy and time on arguing with those Tibetan leaders because he wanted to preside over the division of land. In the meantime, because some Dali barbarian and white barbarian tribes were unwilling to surrender, Huang Shang also organized two crusades, if it weren't for the help of a qualified staff team and Zhao Long, who served as the deputy head of soldiers and horses, he wouldn't even have the time to take care of the affairs of Lizhou.

Huang Shang did not leave them to fend for themselves, but adhered to the orders of the imperial court, sent people to teach them to grow medicinal herbs, graze horses, cut wood, and exchange them with the Han people, and also taught them farming methods from the Central Plains to liberate them from slash-and-burn farming.

With the raw mouth captured from Dali, a lot of heavy farm work can be transferred from the hands of the men in the headquarters to the newcomers. The Han people, in addition to strengthening their control and development over the core region, were able to trade irreplaceably through guò, and then exploit the benefits of the southwestern Yi from the serfs.

This practice, just like what Han Gang did in Jiaozhi back then, made Siyi economically inseparable from China, and finally gradually integrated together. As long as the trade is close in the future, then there is no need to worry about the problem of barbarian rebellion.

A large part of Jiaozhou's development comes from the great development of commerce, especially maritime trade.

However, almost all Han Chinese are concentrated in the vicinity of Haimen County, the prefecture of Jiaozhou. The vast land outside Haimen County was basically divided by hundreds of plantations, allowing the originally impoverished Zuojiang Seventy-two Caves to live a comfortable life.

Due to the establishment of Hangang, Jiaozhou was exempted from the Ding tax, and there was not much to hide in terms of population, while the number of fields was more hidden. However, as long as the grain produced by Jiaozhou is enough to ensure that the grain price in the country is stable and the income of the field is large, the imperial court will never account too much. Moreover, the vast majority of the taxes paid to the state come from commercial taxes, and the collection is not laborious land taxes, and the officials in the yamen are troublesome.

Buying the upper class, co-opting the middle class, and jointly exploiting the lower class, China can sit back and enjoy its benefits, and such Jiaozhou is a model for governing the land of the four yi.

Huang Shang felt that as long as he could follow the example of Jiaozhou, manage the two anointed places of Lizhou and Queensland well, and then teach the Tibetan people how to manage their land, and the later officials would not do their own evils, Yunnan Road could settle down and become the next Jiaozhou of the imperial court.

Huang Sheng has been on Yunnan Road for more than half a year, trying to apply the policy implemented in Jiaozhou to his Lizhou and Yunnan Road.

By the time he returned to the capital, Kumamoto had already been serving as governor for several months.

Because of the credit for the destruction of Dali, Kumamoto Shun lì Tong Guò Tingtui. And he was elected with a rare high vote in recent years. No matter which party it is, no one has jumped out to oppose his entry into the two governments.

But Kumamoto did not enter the Privy Council in the end, and the Queen Mother appointed him to enter the political hall.

"Does the Queen Mother want to ......?"

Huang Shang asked softly, a finger dangling from the rim of the cup.

"Not really." Han Gang shook his head, "Kumamoto's appointment was built by me. ”

"Why?"

"Zhang Zihou has been in the Secret Academy for too long."

Huang Shang's eyes widened in surprise for a moment, but in an instant, he understood again, "That's it." ”

The current governors are Deng Yunfu and Kumamoto, and they are in charge of general affairs.

As for the prime minister, most of the official affairs are still on Han Gang, although Su Song said that he was not sick, but the handling of political affairs was basically handed over to Han Gang, and only important personnel arrangements or military affairs would open the golden mouth.

"The Empress Dowager has been hesitant lately, and she will drop out of the court in the next few days, so you can rest for two more days with peace of mind, and then go to the palace in a few days."

"Yes, Huang Shang understands."

After explaining Huang Shang, Han Gang got up and rushed to the palace.

The last time I dropped out of the dynasty, I said that there were not a few days, but somehow I managed to survive. After a winter, I thought I could hold on for a while, but now the condition suddenly worsened, so the Queen Mother ordered to drop out of the dynasty for five days, and ordered people to pray for blessings in the Great Xiangguo Temple.

However, dropping out of the dynasty does not mean that the queen mother does not take care of political affairs, and still convenes the chief executive in the small hall of the east gate.

The first five-year plan is coming to an end.

In the past five years, the Great Song Dynasty has made great progress in terms of wealth, household registration, construction, and military.

The second political consultative meeting will be held in the second half of the year, and the formulation of the state in the next five years will not be as smooth as the last one.

With outstanding results, Han Gang hopes to take the direction of the country into his own hands.

Holding the report summarized by the political affairs hall, the numbers on the paper are the confidence that Han Gang has to control the next country.

"There are 20.4 million households and 4,173 households, and the number of households is 45.26 million and 1,609, an increase of 7.9 percent and 8.2 percent compared with five years ago."

The population statistics of the Great Song Dynasty only counted the dingkou, that is, the men who paid taxes, and did not count the old and weak and women. However, the total population is undoubtedly more than 100 million based on the number of men in the prime of life.

"Purely based on household registration, all dynasties in history, whether it is the Han and Tang dynasties, Wenjing, or Zhenguan, are far inferior to today."

Han Gang's summary made the Queen Mother nod happily. What can prove the rule is the first is martial arts, the other is the government, and the growth of the household registration and the number of people is the best proof of the government. The increase in the number of households and households can only represent an increase in the number of adult men, and the frenzy of natural growth caused by the decline in mortality is far from coming.

Han Gang said: "In the past five years, according to the statistics of the Department of Health and Welfare, the total number of young children with pox is 38 million, with an average of 7.6 million per year. ”

The number of 7.6 million is far more important than the increase in Dingkou.

"So much!" The Queen Mother was surprised.

The Zai Fu were also surprised, didn't the Queen Mother read the performance of the Ministry of Health and Welfare, the number of births in the country every year, this is an extremely important content.

Although this number is actually impossible to count at all, it is unlikely that children who have been unable to accept pox since childhood will be included in the Dingkou book in the future - this has nothing to do with whether they have money or not, that is, the fifth-class households or the sons of customers, or even beggars, and there are also a bunch of rich families and temples who want to accumulate yin virtue and help them pay their bills, but it is a question of whether they are included in the rule of the imperial court - so as long as the number of pox is calculated, it can almost be equivalent to the number of births.

"In other words, the world will increase by 7.6 million people every year?"

"It's also about population growth when you subtract the number of deaths. But more than a decade later, it is true that at least three million men and three million women are adults every year. ”

Among the 7.6 million people, 6 million are adults, and the premature mortality rate is 20 percent.

But three million mouths a year is also an unbelievable number. Twenty percent is a ding, sixty is old, forty years by three million, forty years will be 120 million, the total population will be doubled and a turn will be turned, let alone 300 million people. This is still the population growth that has not been included in the growth - this is actually a matter of compound interest on the donkey's rolling, and this account will also be counted by the Zaifu present. That's a number several times more than 300 million.

"Three million Ding ...... a year" Empress Dowager Xiang suddenly found that she couldn't do arithmetic, and after multiplying this number by forty years, it was too huge.

"Three million men and three million women are not entirely good. The number of deaths in Dingkou every year is only more than 1 million, and it will not exceed 3 million if you count women. Once the imperial court fails to deal with it, it will be an additional 3 million or even 4 million hungry men and women who do not have enough to eat every year. This is one thing that must be considered for the next five years, and for the next five years, and even a hundred years from now. ”

In fact, Han Gang is talking about the unemployed. In an era without welfare, unemployment of more than five percentage points could keep the emperor awake.

"I see." Xiang nodded to the Queen Mother, and said to Kumamoto: "If it is so easy to defeat Dali with Xiong Qing in every battle, I don't have to worry about it in the future." ”

"Don't dare," Kumamoto hurriedly said, "This is the blessing of His Majesty, and it is also the result of the help of the princes in the court." ”

Xiang Empress Dowager said to Han Gang: "The words of the public must not be worried. In the future, this article must be taken into account. ”

Although she didn't know what an unemployed person was, Empress Dowager Xiang still understood what would happen if millions of people couldn't eat.

Han Gang had publicly calculated early on that when the world's production could not feed the world's population, then it would be the beginning of the chaos. Expanding outward, this must be a country that will never waver within a hundred years.

Both nominally and substantively, the national borders of southern China have basically reached or even crossed the position of a thousand years ago, and the northwest is basically the same. Since the opening of the river, the Tibetan tribes in the southwest, led by the city of Luo [present-day Lhasa], many tribes and monasteries have gradually sent people to Beijing, and have been given gifts by the imperial court, nominally, subject to the Central Plains Dynasty.

Now militarily, the only opponent who is still hindering Han Gang from achieving his goal is the Liao State in the north. That is the last and at the same time the strongest foreign enemy. But in terms of expanding the territory, attacking the Liao State is not a good deal.

For example, the small countries around the South Seas could not be easier to fight, as long as they can overcome the epidemic, they are the best places to explore. Even if it can't be overcome, it can also solve the large number of surplus population in China.