When the scorching heat came, the weather was hot, and there were many plagues, Jin Liang asked the troops guarding the counties and towns of Jizhou and Bingzhou to do a good job of cleaning and sanitation to prevent the plague, and the medical students of Hua Tuo and Zhang Zhongjing went to various places to guide the epidemic prevention work. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

In addition to cultivating grain on the tuntian fields to which they belong, in addition to helping their families cultivate grain, they also participated in the construction of water conservancy to avoid flooding in summer.

In these three months, Jin Liang did a great thing that everyone praised, he announced the exemption of arithmetic, that is, the exemption of poll tax, this policy of benefiting the people undoubtedly made the people get great benefits, and all the people were jubilant for a while, and Jin Liang almost became a Buddha of all people.

The reason why Jin Liang was exempted from the calculation of the levy, in addition to reducing the pressure on the people and allowing the people to recuperate from the war, was also because of the calculation of more than 100 yuan per person a year for the seven million people in Jizhou and Bingzhou, and the total was only 700 million yuan.

In addition, Jin Liang asked the cabinet to draw up an edict to exempt the levy from taxation and taxation, and only those who were naturalized in the government could be exempted from the calculation, and the naturalized persons could pass freely within the scope of Jizhou and the annexed prefectures, and those who were not registered could not only not get a share of the land, but also had to pay ten times the calculation and taxation. Even the servants of the powerful and wealthy families have been naturalized, otherwise they will be severely punished for the powerful and wealthy families after they are found.

Jin Liang engaged in such a move of naturalization for the whole people, and he didn't want to make money like the future generations under the pretense of doing some kind of bullshit temporary residence permit or something. Instead, I want to verify how many people there are in Jizhou and Bingzhou, and I want to force the hidden population of those big families to be revealed, and only by understanding the population situation clearly can we formulate the next strategy.

Families from all over the country saw Jin Liang sweep away the rebels of the family. Don't dare to disobey Jin Liang's will anymore and start to pay the land tax and commercial tax, of course, Jin Liang's current policy is to lightly give the people rest, so the land tax is not very high, it is a drop in the bucket for the family, they don't need to fight against Jin Liang's hundreds of thousands of central troops for such a little money and end up like the Jinyang royal family, so they compromised.

These families paid the land tax on the land, and the tax was only linked to the income from the acres of land, shops, minerals, etc. It is not linked to the population, so they have no incentive to continue to hide the population, and under the pressure of heavy punishments, they drove all the slaves and tenant farmers who had been hiding before to the local county and township pavilion to register and make a register.

The time given by Jin Liang is three months, and the population statistics of Jizhou and Jizhou should be completed within three months.

The officers and men of the Central Army and the soldiers of the counties and counties who stayed in various places helped the local government to urge the people in various places to go to the government to register and obtain household registration certificates, including every displaced person who entered Jizhou. This time, Jin Liang had to find out how many people he had under his rule, and he could no longer use the estimated seven million to deceive himself.

In conjunction with this census, the villages were integrated and the small families scattered in the mountains and valleys were relocated to the Great Dock Fort, so as to avoid the damage to these families caused by the war. Soldiers from all over the county and county dispatched in all directions, searched every mountain pass and deserted village, and moved the scattered small families and small villages to the Dawu Fort.

Especially in the northern part of Bingzhou, because there are often Qianghu, Xiongnu, Xianbei and other Hu people to plunder in the south, according to the will of Jin Liang to build the dock fort are all fortress structure, those scimitar cavalry is not good at attacking the city Hu people can not break through at all, they have to rob those scattered in the mountains and barren valleys defenseless small households, small villages, Hu people will often carry out a sweep of Bingzhou before the winter, to complete the migration before this sweep.

Each county and township pavilion has a local garrison to assist in the implementation of demographic tasks, so that the family members of each household must be the local government yamen, by the local officials face to face, after the inspection is issued household registration certificate, the voucher is a hard-shell paper, there is a general portrait on it, the information below the portrait has the name of the county, county, township, pavilion, mile, etc., name, gender, age, height, skin color, etc., covered with the local county lieutenant's seal.

Although Jin Liang has tried to encourage the people to take the initiative to declare the household registration, but it is inevitable that there will be some people who distort the meaning of the government and refuse to declare it to the government, and even some people who have bad deeds dare not show up, Jin Liang ordered to launch a report, before October of the first year of Guangxi, complete the population survey of Jizhou and Bingzhou, and those who have not yet entered the household are not new immigrants, not only will they be punished as official slaves, but also the pavilion chief and the chief will be punished as hard labor.

After three months, the population of Jizhou and Bingzhou totaled 8,776,452 people, 3,934,122 men and 4,842,330 women, 910,000 more women than men.

Jin Liang was not surprised by this result, he had long thought that the hidden population of the family would far exceed everyone's estimates, according to the original estimate of the hidden population of the family, the population of Jizhou and the state was estimated to be only seven million, and now it seems that the estimate is still too conservative. There may also be some families with hidden populations that have not yet been reported, and counting the displaced people who have fled from other states and counties in recent months, the current population of Jizhou and Bingzhou is about 9 million, which is one-sixth of the total population in the heyday of the Han Dynasty.

Jin Liang just crossed into this time and space, coinciding with the change of the Ten Standing Servants, he persuaded Ding Yuan to lead troops into Luoyang City, to participate in it, Jin Liang took the opportunity to save the Queen Mother and the Son of Heaven Liu Bian, Chen Liuwang Liu Xie, and began his unconventional history, Jin Liang also took the opportunity to send Wei Xu and Song Xian to loot the classics in the palace, including the household registration classics of the Han Dynasty.

Jin Liang originally thought that according to the conditions of ancient times, it would be difficult to do a census, but after reading the classics that were looted from the Luoyang Imperial Palace and transported to the Xiangyang General, he found that the wisdom of the ancients could not be underestimated.

Population verification had been carried out in this country as early as the Zhou Dynasty at the latest, and it was customized. "Zhou Li? Magistrate? Xiao Situ recorded: "The position of Xiao Situ, who is in charge of the teachings of the state, is to give the law to the doctors of the six towns, so that they can be ranked among the people in their own towns." It can be seen that the duties of the official posts of "Xiao Situ" and "Township Doctor" set up at that time included the affairs of population verification -- the "many widows" of the registered people.

Jin Liang's large-scale population statistics did not cause a strong backlash, because in the Han Dynasty, the population verification system had been consolidated and developed, and the household registration code system had been perfected.

Jin Liang attaches great importance to the population because people are the most important factor constituting the social productive forces, and "rich countries" and "strong soldiers" are inseparable from human resources, so it is necessary to grasp the population situation of the country.

In the past, the reason why the Liu Han court carried out population verification every year was inseparable from the tax and conscription system at that time. Before Jin Liang came to power, the "poll tax" that was directly levied on taxpayers used to be a major source of revenue for the Liu and Han courts, and in addition, the common people had to bear all kinds of forced labor without compensation.

The "poll tax" levied in the Han Dynasty mainly included "oral endowment" and "calculation endowment". The "oral tax" is a tax levied on children between the ages of seven and fourteen, and each person pays twenty cents a year as royal income. At that time, in order to implement the relevant social and economic policies of the state, there were provisions for the levy of merchants, unmarried women between the ages of 15 and 30, and slaves and maids. There are exemptions for pregnant women, mothers, and families with octogenarian seniors. In addition, the Han Dynasty stipulated that the common people were obliged to serve from the age of 23 to 56, and the types of conscription mainly included the Tao: men of appropriate age were required to serve in the national capital for one year in their lives, which was called "Zhengshu"; to the border for a year, called "soldiers"; Each year, he serves one month of hard labor in his county and county, which is called a "shifter". Those who are unable to serve in conscription must pay a substitute payment, which is called "change of payment".

Under this kind of enslavement system, the number, gender, age, occupation, social status, marriage, childbirth, etc., of the population are directly related to the collection of "poll tax" and the levy of conscription, and only by accurately grasping the dynamic information of the population can we determine the obligation of enslavement and the tax policy that the people should enjoy, and population verification has become a prerequisite for the implementation of this enslavement system.

"Hanshu Xiao He Biography" records that during the anti-Qin war, Liu Bang's army entered Xianyang, the capital of Qin, and Xiao He first collected the books collected by the prime minister of the Qin Dynasty, so Liu Bang knew that the population at this time had dropped from the original 30 million to about 13 million.

At the end of the Western Han Dynasty, wars and natural disasters reduced the population from 60 million to 21 million. The figure of 21 million was obtained through a household survey in the Eastern Han Dynasty.

The Eastern Han Dynasty had a strict system for household surveys. In the Eastern Han Dynasty, the household survey was called "case comparison", that is, the case test, comparison, often held in August every year, at the same time, the court will also send people to "count people", that is, the court sent people to select girls to enter the palace, where the girl of a good family is "more than thirteen years old, less than twenty", if the beautiful can enter the palace to choose a concubine, like the queen mother He Lian was elected to the palace in this way.

The scale of the annual household survey in the Eastern Han Dynasty is also very large, from the county to the township, from the 80-year-old to the children under the age of 6. The content of the Eastern Han Dynasty household survey is also very detailed, even the height and appearance must be investigated.

Because the Eastern Han Dynasty attaches great importance to population management, the population has increased a lot compared with before, and Emperor Huan has a 56486856 of three years of longevity, which is the highest population record of the Eastern Han Dynasty recorded in the historical records.

Although after several years of the Yellow Turban Rebellion and large-scale plague, the population base is there, and there are still many families who conceal the population, Jin Liang now roughly estimates that the total population of the entire Han Dynasty is still around 50 million.

After the census, a new question arose.

Jin Liang found out of thin air that there were many more people who had no land and were waiting for the Central Army to allocate them land.

Jin Liang asked people to interrogate carefully, only to learn that these were some slaves and tenant farmers released by the family in order to reduce their burden.

A few months ago, after Jin Liang swept away the rebels of the Wuzhou family, he took advantage of this great victory, and confidently collected all the fields that the remaining family families illegally occupied and had not been registered, and these family families raised a lot of slaves and tenant farmers who were willing to sell themselves, and there were too many people to take in and hide, and the excess fields were taken away by Jin Liang very justifiably, so that the family members found that the fields that were not willing to sell themselves and submit to them were divided from the Central Army by the Central Army, more than their own per capita acres, It's even better.

Before Jin Liang took power, the big families all evaded the land tax and business taxes, but because of Jin Liang's iron-fisted suppression, although the remnants of the family were more than ten times that of the rebellious family families, they were all intimidated by the iron blood of hundreds of thousands of central troops, and they did not dare to repeat the mistakes of Zheng Tai and other families, and obediently agreed to pay one mu and two buckets of land tax, which is the same as the land tax paid by self-cultivated farmers. But now there is a shortage of acres of land that can be handed over to tenant farmers for cultivation, less cultivation, and more shares from the landlords of the family, so that those tenant farmers are comparing their situation with the self-cultivated farmers who are free to pay only one acre of land and two buckets of grain, and their hearts are very unbalanced.

Seeing that this situation was helpless, the clans were helpless, so they divided the land evenly among the tenant farmers below according to the standard of the central army's equal distribution of land, and gave the tenant farmers below ten acres of land rent and reduced the additional two buckets of taxes, and the tax of one mu and two buckets was deducted from the grain they had originally collected from the tenant farmers.

After the census passed, there were always as many as four or five hundred thousand tenant farmers who had been dismissed by the big families who had gathered in front of the Central Army garrison.

Jin Liang is a little at a loss, he took into account the conservation of water and soil ecology and ordered not to blindly open up wasteland, now the entire Jizhou, and the state of the fertile land has been distributed to the officers and men of the Central Army to do equal distribution of fields, military merit fields, and a large part of the central army, county and county soldiers of the tuntian, of course, Han Hao is now renamed the Jizhou Construction Corps The tuntian soldiers occupy a lot of good land, and the fields that can be reserved for these tenant farmers are only more than 2 million mu, which is only enough to resettle more than 200,000 people, and more than 200,000 people cannot get land.

How to resettle these more than 200,000 people? How can we resettle the growing number of displaced people?

Jin Liang's somewhat dazed gaze was cast on a place that was later known as Saishang Jiangnan.

Here is the Hetao area, east of Helan Mountain, west of Jinliang Mountain, south of Yinshan Mountain, north of the Great Wall, including Yinchuan Plain and Ordos Plateau, part of the Loess Plateau, the Yellow River here first along Helan Mountain to the north, and then because of the Yinshan block to the east and then along the Jinliang Mountain to the south, forming a "several" shape, so it is called "Hetao".

Hetao west, north and east are surrounded by the Yellow River, Yinshan traverses the north of the Yellow River, its valley is mostly an important passage of the north and south of the ancient desert, Helan Mountain towers in the west of the Yellow River, Luya Mountain barrier is in the east of the Yellow River, the south is adjacent to the northern Shaanxi Plateau by the mountains and blocks the river, the situation is dangerous, the Taoli is the Ordos Plateau, the surface is undulating, the middle is high, the Yellow River in the surrounding low territory, the water flow is stable, the land on both sides is fertile, it can be cultivated and pastured, so there is the saying that "the Yellow River is harmful, but only one set of rich".

Before the Zhou Dynasty, this was occupied by the Xiongnu who belonged to the Di people in the Spring and Autumn Period, Zhao Wuling King of Zhao extended the territory to the Yinshan Mountain Range, set up Yunzhong County, located in the east of the Tumochuan Plain After the Qin Dynasty unified the Central Plains, Pai Mengtian led an army of 100,000 to drive the Xiongnu out of the Hetao, migrated 30,000 households to the border there, set up Yunzhong and Jiuyuan two counties, and the immigrants at the end of Qin returned to the Central Plains.

In the Western Han Dynasty, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty sent Wei Qing out of the clouds to defeat the two kings of Lou Fu and Baiyang of the Xiongnu, and occupied the Hetao Minister Father Yan Shangshu suggested that the city should be built in the Hetao to Tuntian and raise horses, as a base for defense and attack on the Xiongnu Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty accepted this suggestion, that is, Shuofang County and Wuyuan County, and later placed Xihe County, the Hetao area also included the previous Yunzhong County and Dingxiang County, as well as the northern part of Beidi and Shangjun at that time the people led the Yellow River to irrigate, and the local agriculture developed rapidly and the economy prospered.

However, the good times did not last long, and the Huns who belonged to the Han Dynasty in the Eastern Han Dynasty were placed in the Hetao, where they grazed, and then there was no place for the Han people to stand.

Now there are many Xiongnu tribes in the southeast of Hetao, many Qianghu tribes in the northwest, and several Xianbei tribes in the north, all of them grazing here, the great fertile fields are grown with barren grass, and the great Yellow River flows in vain.

Jin Liang thought of the future generations of plugging up the Jiangnan, and couldn't help but sigh, he could no longer put such a good fertile soil without cultivating it

The surrounding area of the Hetao, in addition to the mother river Yellow River, which flows slowly here, also includes the Huangshui Basin, the Taoshui Basin, the Luoshui Basin, the Weishui Basin, the Fenshui Basin, the Sangqian River Basin, the Luoshui Basin, the Zhangshui Basin, and the Hutuo River Basin, they surround the Hetao area, just like the stars holding the moon, this area has just been developed in the Han Dynasty and the Han Dynasty, and there is no salinization and desertification in later generations, as long as more ditches are built, the Hetao area should be able to reclaim 30 or 40 million mu of fertile land, and it will not be a problem to accommodate three or four million people at that time.

Jin Liang noticed the problem, in fact, the previous Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty noticed, he set up counties after recapturing the Hetao area, built cities, relocated people to reclaim, carried out large-scale military tuntian, properly resettled and attached to the Xiongnu, and built water conservancy, to the end of the Western Han Dynasty, the Hetao area has nearly a million people, and has also developed more than 500,000 acres of fertile land, how can Wang Mang usurp the country, the Central Plains civil war, the Huns reoccupied the Hetao, the Han people fled back to the inland in the early years of the Eastern Han Dynasty Liu Xiu adopted a policy of contraction, and the western and northern counties were mostly abandoned.

In the last years of Liu Xiu, the Xiongnu had internal strife, Nandan was annexed, and the Eastern Han Dynasty began to operate the Hetao, so Yunzhong, Wuyuan, Shuofang, Beidi, Dingxiang, Yanmen, Shanggu, and Dai eight counties were returned to the local area, and the Eastern Han Dynasty's governance of the Hetao began to end in the late Eastern Han Dynasty because of civil strife, and the Xiongnu who were placed in the Hetao area restarted the rebellion, and the Han people fled again.

Jin Liang couldn't help but think of the Tang Dynasty's internal policy towards the nomads and the Ming Dynasty's internal policy towards Mongolia, all of which failed, these nomads were all a virtue, when the Han nation was prosperous, they wagked their tails and begged for mercy, and when the Han nation was in decline and infighting, they lit up their canine teeth and began to devour the lord.

It is already the ninth month of the lunar calendar, the autumn is high and crisp, not as hot as before, the grain will be harvested in a blink of an eye, and the fields will be ploughed and planted with winter wheat not long after the harvest is completed, Jin Liang hopes that these more than 200,000 tenant farmers can sow the seeds they hope in the Hetao area.

Jin Liang asked Guo Jia to send people to investigate before, there are more than 900,000 herdsmen living in the entire Hetao area, they come from dozens of different tribes of the three major races, Xiongnu, Qianghu, and Xianbei, and it is precisely because they come from different races and different tribes that they often wag friction wars and cannot be united, otherwise the nomads in the entire Hetao area will launch a war of aggression against the Han Dynasty together, and more than 900,000 herdsmen can arm 300,000 cavalry at once, and 300,000 cavalry will definitely be able to sweep away the inland princes who are now fighting and fighting.

Although the nomads in the Dahetao area are like a plate of scattered sand, Jin Liang also has self-knowledge and will not come to turn the whole plate over. (To be continued.) )