"A Zhuangzi gives 600 acres? Isn't it too much? ”

The official Zhao Xin frowned, as if he was a little painful.

A Zhuangzi is the starting price! At present, the upper limit of the number of granges held by military attachés in the Western Song Dynasty is 16, and if these granges are granted in the Ili River Valley, it will be 9,600 mu.

The heads of the Mongols look quite easy to cut, but are the fields of the Ili River Valley and the Broken Leaf River Valley enough to be divided?

In addition, Zhao Xin could not distribute all the land in the Ili River Valley and the Shaye River Valley to military households. Because he still has to leave some land for his son, Zhao Yan, the king of Broken Leaves!

By the way, the vassal kings of the Western Song Dynasty were not fiefdoms, but feuds - because except for Jing Chu, the territories elsewhere were not valuable, so what were they for? And it's useless to seal it.

Seal the vassal king to the Central Plains and give a circle. Because there are Han households on the land, the prince can naturally be powerful and blessed.

But if you want to seal the vassal king outward, what is the use of just having land? The king of the bare pole domain, who listens to you? Don't call anyone to kill them when the time comes! That's why you have to close your account. It is not a feudal household, but a feudal military household.

According to the usual practice, the imperial court had to recruit a new batch of "landless military households" for each feudal king. It is usually 10,000 households, and the targets of recruitment are mainly the "non-eldest sons" of military households and the gun doctors who have landed...... In the Western Song Dynasty, there was no shortage of non-eldest sons of military households and gun doctors who could not be admitted to Xiucai.

This kind of person can't be high, and he can't be low. The chances of becoming an official are slim, and he is unwilling to farm, so he will follow the vassal king to the outer domain.

And the vassal kings also rely on them to fight the world...... The vassal king is a feudal household! The territory still depends on these military households!

If you seal 10,000 military households, you can almost have an army of 10,000 people. The strength of the non-eldest son of the landed gun doctor and the military household is not weak, and a person like 10,000 can't beat a strong enemy like Temujin, and it's no problem to bully the head snake of the feudal country.

Therefore, except for the seven feudal kings of the Western Song Dynasty, except for the king of Jingchu, they all sealed their households and then went to grab a piece of land by themselves.

And Zhao Huan, the king of Broken Leaves, is no exception, he also has 10,000 military households under him, and he is ready to grab territory in the Broken Leaf River Valley area. However, this "robbery" is from the hands of the natives or Tartars, not from the imperial court.

If the imperial court wanted to set up prefectures near the target area of the feudal king's "land grabbing", it had to coordinate with the feudal prince's palace to avoid conflicts.

By the way, the so-called King of Dali, King Shule, King of Gaochang, King of Tubo, King of Khotan, and King of Qingtang did not occupy all the territories of Dali, Shule, Gaochang, Tubo, Khotan, and Qingtang. Rather, they only occupy a part of the land mentioned above, which is about the land that can be firmly controlled by 10,000 military households.

In those territories where the Han people were not numerous, these military households under the command of the vassal kings were the cornerstone of the consolidation of the rule of the Western Song Dynasty.

As for the rebellion of the vassal king...... The Western Song Dynasty court was not afraid at all, how could a vassal king with only 10,000 military households beat the Western Song Dynasty court with hundreds of thousands of gun doctors and hundreds of thousands of military households? The Battle of Jingyan or something is simply impossible in today's Western Song Dynasty.

Zhao Xin thought about it for a while, and then he thought about it and said: "The Broken Leaf King has 10,000 households, plus his own share of land, why do you have to circle tens of millions of acres?" The meritorious soldiers are another 600 acres of a village...... Is there so much fertile land in the Western Regions? ”

"Your Majesty," Han Tuoxuan said, "the land in the Western Regions is different from the Central Plains, most of them are raw land, which can be cultivated but not cultivated, or once reclaimed but now abandoned. It takes a little effort to reclaim this land.

In addition, the Western Regions are few and wide. Except for a few places where they are better, most of them are difficult to find tenants. In other words, the granted land cannot be rented out at all, and can only be developed by the military households themselves.

And the family has cultivated so much that it has to be used for grazing. Therefore, the actual grant of 600 acres, the income of military households is not comparable to the 200 acres of Guanlong. If you give less, I'm afraid it won't be enough to compensate for the credit.

As for the land...... It should be enough. ”

"In that case, let's do so." Zhao Xin nodded.

It should be enough...... Han Tuoxuan did not expect that Temujin would use the destruction of ecology and the destruction of oases to resist the Western Expedition of the Great Song Dynasty.

But even if he knew, he couldn't do anything now but bite the bullet and expand westward.

Because since the Western Song Dynasty has chosen to "make a hole", it is necessary to give the people below a chance to get ahead, otherwise there will definitely be trouble.

The Western Song Dynasty had no opportunity to go east and into the sea, and there was not much room to go south and north - from Bagan to the south was a land of miasma, and from Tubo to the south, the road was too south. To the north is the bitter cold land of Mobei, which is also not suitable for granting fields.

Therefore, westward expansion has become a more feasible way out!

Even without the rise of Temujin, it was only a matter of time before the Western Song Dynasty expanded westward.

However, the Western Song Dynasty, which expanded westward, encountered the problem that the cost of expansion was higher than the benefit...... Although not all of this cost was borne by the imperial court, a considerable part was shared by the "gun doctors" and military households.

However, the losses of expansion will still be reflected in the financial situation of the two pillars of the Western Song Dynasty, the military household and the gun doctor...... Once these two strata fell into economic difficulties, the entire ruling foundation of the Western Song Dynasty would be shaken.

However, in 1218 of the Western calendar, the Western Song Dynasty did not know that its military households and gun doctors would go bankrupt in large numbers due to the westward expansion war. Because they did not expect that the Mongols would implement resolute scorched earth tactics in the Western Regions!

The consequence of the predicament of the Western Song Dynasty military households and gun doctors was a new Central Plains War...... Because after the westward expansion policy was frustrated, the eastward expansion to seize the rich Eastern Song Dynasty territory became the only choice!

At the same time, the Eastern Song Dynasty, the "brotherly state" of the Western Song Dynasty, ushered in an era of great prosperity with joy.

The era of prosperity was contributed to three factors, the first of course was the peace dividend after the Second Central Plains War - due to the westward expansion of the Western Song Dynasty and the Great Zhou Dynasty's China priority policy, the Eastern Song Dynasty was in the era of the most harmonious surrounding environment since its establishment.

The second factor was the development of North America, stimulated by the Genghis Khan Wars—these two events were not really related, but under the joint promotion of the Great Zhou Republic and its vassal United States of America, a boom in the development of the east coast of North America, led by the military industry, still appeared. This boom not only provided huge opportunities for the industry and commerce of the Great Zhou, but also allowed the industry and commerce of the Eastern Song Dynasty to share development opportunities. Because the investment of the industry and commerce of the Eastern Song Dynasty on the east coast of North America can also enjoy the subsidy policy of the United States of America.

The third factor of prosperity was the inflation caused by the continuous inflow of gold, silver, and brass from the New World.

The modest rise in prices was not unpleasant for the most part, especially the developed industry and commerce in the local core of the Eastern Song Dynasty, which clearly benefited from this level of inflation. Not only have wages risen significantly, but people in rural areas have become increasingly affluent as the area under cash crop cultivation continues to rise.

Since about twenty or thirty years ago, cotton from the Americas began to be planted in the Gangnam area on a trial basis, and good harvests have been achieved. As a result, Jiangnan's textile industry has also gained a new opportunity for development - not only silk, but also cotton cloth.

In addition to cotton, rape and sugar beet were also introduced to China during this early Age of Discovery. It was cultivated in large quantities on the land of the Eastern Song Dynasty. As a result, the production of edible oil and sugar has also increased significantly, and "Jianghuai sugar" has become one of the five important international trade commodities in the Jiangnan region, following silk, cotton cloth, tea, and ironware.

With the overall economic prosperity of Jiangnan and Jianghuai, the dietary structure of the people of the Eastern Song Dynasty has also undergone significant changes in the past few decades, and the consumption of meat and oil has become more and more.

Due to the large cultivation of cotton, rapeseed, sweet tea, mulberry and tea trees, and the continuous development of pastures for raising cattle and sheep, the arable land used for growing grain in Jiangnan and Jianghuai is declining.

At the same time, large quantities of grain were used to feed livestock and poultry in order to provide enough meat for the wealthy Eastern Song people.

Therefore, the Eastern Song Dynasty, which occupied the land of fish and rice in Jianghuai and Jiangnan, changed from a grain export area to a grain import area from the 90th year of Hezhong (1216). Large quantities of rice must be imported from places such as Cochin, Annam, and Champa every year to meet the demand.

As for Fujian, the traditional grain import area, as early as 60 years ago, it was extremely dependent on the supply of Jiaozhi rice.

In addition, timber imported from Siam, spices imported from the South Seas and the Little Western Ocean, medicinal herbs, furs, wool, brass, soybeans, and coal imported from the Great Zhou Dynasty (including Goryeo and Japan), and gold and silver, peanuts, chili peppers, tobacco, and other items imported from the Americas and the New Song Dynasty all became indispensable parts of the prosperous economic life of the Eastern Song Dynasty.

In other words, the mainland of the Eastern Song Dynasty had gone from being a self-sufficient idyllic land to being part of a vast international colonial trading system.

Of course, the Eastern Song Dynasty was not a bitter colony, but a native of the colonists who enjoyed the huge wealth provided by the colonies.

This should have been a good thing, but the system of the United States of the Eastern Song Dynasty was a little unsuitable for this world empire.

Although there was a world empire in later generations that adopted the system of "united for state", the power of the central government in that United States had greatly expanded after a civil war with heavy casualties.

However, the Eastern Song Dynasty did not experience such a civil war, so it still maintained the founding concept of the United States as a country. In the more than 90 years since the founding of the People's Republic of China, the number of United States has risen from 18 to 50.

And each of the United States states has great autonomy, can have a militia, can make some laws, and most importantly have an independent financial system, and can also exert a huge influence on the country's tariffs!

That is, the Eastern Song Dynasty was actually an alliance in which each United States could put its own interests above the national interests of the United States.

As a result, it was difficult for the powerful Eastern Song States to fully exert their national power—a situation very similar to that of the North American States, a vassal state of the Great Zhou Republic. But the United States of America has no strong enemies around it, and it is even far from its own home country, Great Zhou. Therefore, the absence of a strong central power does not prevent it from developing and growing.

However, this was not the case in the Eastern Song Dynasty, and the country was always under the oppression of great external threats.

In such a situation, it is really a bit dangerous to continue to adopt a united form of government.

The biggest threat to the Eastern Song Dynasty was not the Western Song Empire, because the merchant alliance of the Eastern Song Dynasty was completely incompatible with the Western Song Dynasty.

Therefore, when the Eastern Song Dynasty faced several attacks by the Western Song Dynasty, the various United States were able to unite as one. The United Government of the Eastern Song Dynasty naturally had soldiers and money, and had a powerful Yangtze River Naval Division, so it would not lose.

However, to some extent, the Great Zhou Republic can coexist with the United States of the Eastern Song Dynasty!

Because the republic is very close to the United States, if there is one difference, it is that the United States has a plurality of sources of power – each United States has power very close to the center!

The source of power of the Great Zhou Republic is unified - the Senate is the highest organ of power, and has the final say on everything that happens in the Great Zhou Republic, including all dependent states and dominions.

The so-called autonomy in the Great Zhou Dynasty is actually the decentralization of power by the Senate of the Great Zhou Republic. The Senate could at any time revoke its powers or give orders to the local government in the form of bills, and could even abolish or change the boundaries of any state, county, town, or self-governing state.

Of course, in the vast majority of cases, the Senate of the Great Zhou Republic will still fully respect local governance.

In other words, for the United States of the Eastern Song Dynasty, joining the Great Zhou will always be an acceptable option!

In order for the Eastern Song Dynasty to have the cohesion to resist the Great Zhou Republic, it was necessary to change the loose system of the United States, but in this way, what was the difference between the United States of the Eastern Song Dynasty and the Autonomous Prefectures of the Great Zhou?

Since there is no difference, why not join Da Zhou and go against Da Zhou?

Not to mention that the military power of the Great Zhou Dynasty was stronger than that of the Eastern Song Dynasty, it is said that the American market controlled by the Great Zhou regime was also irresistible to the vast majority of the United States of the Eastern Song Dynasty.

With the advent of the era of the great development of the east coast of the Americas, and the arrival of Temujin's army in the Sea of Marmara, the states of the Eastern Song States became more and more dependent on the American market.

From this time onwards, the doctrine of the union of long times began to become popular among the united states.

After all, Greater China has always longed for reunification, and the two major wars in the Central Plains, which suffered heavy casualties, also made the well-to-do people of the Eastern Song Dynasty fear war, and thus looked forward to the arrival of a prosperous era of long-term unification.

And the imperial court of the Eastern Song Dynasty was a little helpless about this!

Because the power of the imperial court was so limited, it was difficult to interfere in the internal affairs of the United States. Moreover, the royal family of the Eastern Song Dynasty has always been a weak person who is ready to run away to Australia at any time, and he has no confidence in the future world competition, and he can still accuse the people of the United States of being too soft-boned?

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