Chapter 445
This immigration is very important to Datang. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info is not just to let the people reclaim the land, the people can reclaim the place, the scope is not large, the real reclamation, or rely on the power of the imperial court. Even relying on the local government is not enough, many places are located in the wilderness, full of barbarians, and the people of the Tang Dynasty are not accustomed to the water and soil here, and there are no major changes, so it is even more difficult to rely on the people to reclaim the famine by themselves. ’
'I, Datang, don't seem to have this need now, but what about the long past? As the days go by, the people multiply, and the number of people increases, but what if the increase in arable land does not match the increase in population? ’
In the five years of the great cause, there were 9,000,000 households, and 46,000,000 people had zero. How many are in Tempo 14 years? 9 million households, 53 million people. Even, the late Du Xiang thought that at that time, I should have 14 million, 7,500 to 80 million people in the Tang Dynasty. ’
Even, far away, Emperor Guanghe of the Han Dynasty estimated that there were 11 million households and 55 million mouths in the seventh year of Emperor Guanghe. This is the case for many dynasties, which flourish and decline. What does this represent, it represents that the population is chaos. It is true that population is equivalent to national strength, but there are so many people, but there is not so much land in the world, and there is no food, what can we do? ’
'During the Tianbao period, Yuyang was moving, internal and external troubles, and my Datang almost perished. At that time, due to turmoil, the population loss was huge, how long has it been now? Again, I'm afraid that my Tang Guozuo will be all here. ’
Li Chen's words were thought-provoking and deafening, they never thought about this issue, they always wanted to say, the world is peaceful, Tianbao years, if it weren't for An Lushan, a chaotic minister and thief, who was not subservient, the situation in Datang would not be so erosive. But who would have thought that the disaster had already been buried, but no one noticed it.
'In this world, there is no road, and the more people walk, the more they walk, the more they walk. There is no land in the world that can be turned into fertile soil without being developed. Now the land of Huaiyang, the land of fish and rice, but hundreds of years ago, it was not a wilderness. If the Eastern Han Dynasty had been aware of the fertility of the land in these places and a large number of immigrants, perhaps it would not have caused the Yellow Turban Rebellion. ’
Immigration is very important, especially for the Chinese, Li Chen said something serious, hoping that the prime minister would understand, and now it seems that they understand.
The establishment of the box army is not only for construction, but more importantly, to accommodate more people, to be strictly managed by law, and to move the people in a planned way. When Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was on the border, how many people died along the way? How many people are unwilling to leave their homes. But he was carried on the road, and finally died tragically halfway. ’
Since you are going to move, you have to plan ahead so that the people can gradually adapt to the local climate, and you must also pay attention to the epidemic and pay attention to the place, whether the people can settle down quickly. These must be planned, and if they are rushed at that time, they will only repeat the mistakes of their predecessors. ’
Several prime ministers nodded frequently when they heard this, and in the end, they decided to set up a department first, transfer a few Hanlin scholars to fill it in, deal with the newly cultivated land in several states, and see the situation in the future.
I'll take my leave. After the matter was over, several prime ministers got up and were about to go back, Li Deyu stumbled, Li Chen reacted quickly and reached out to help him.
'The minister was rude. Li Deyu stabilized his body and said with his hands crossed, "Li Xiang, you have to take care of your body." Li Chen frowned, Li Deyu is not young, his body is seventy years old, and now he is 63 years old, to put it mildly, maybe one day he will not be able to call it, "I remember instructing Fengyu to visit several prime ministers regularly, did they go?" ’
Yes, sage, the minister has only occasionally felt a cold wind for the past few days, and it will be fine after a while. Li Chen frowned and watched Li Deyu leave, and sighed in his heart, hoping that it was really okay.
In February of the third year of Dazhong, the seven guards of Qinzhou, Yuanzhou, Anle and Shimen in Tibet, with their domestic wars, asked for surrender.
After a few days of discussion, the imperial court issued an edict and ordered the imperial servant Lu Tan to be the consolation envoy, and Zhaojingyuan, Lingwu, Fengxiang, Suining, and Zhenwu all sent troops to respond.
The people, for this time the three states and seven passes to descend, are quite enthusiastic. Without him, Datang was really bullied by Tubo too badly before. Now that they have heard that these states have been recovered, many people have a feeling of resentment.
No matter how horizontal you are in Tibet, you haven't survived the Tang Dynasty, and now it's getting weaker, even the land you occupied at the beginning, the guards will have to belong to the Tang Dynasty. However, not everyone applauded.
The people can have such attention, and thanks to the newspapers, two newly established newspapers have quarreled with this heat.
The newly established Chang'an Daily, which was one of the two newly established newspapers in order to change the status of the imperial examination, criticized it on the one hand, saying that after receiving these prefectures, the population and taxes did not increase much, but it made Datang lose its valuable reputation, and thought that it should not be accepted in any case, and those people should be returned to Tibet, just like Victoria in those years.
Then the newly established Dewannian Daily is a history of how Tubo forced the Tang Dynasty, thinking that these are the original lands of the Tang Dynasty, and what is wrong with recovering them. The two newspapers quarreled endlessly.
They quarreled endlessly, each adding the newspaper to the loyal readers, and also holding the newspaper, taking the opinions of the newspaper as their own, arguing endlessly. Not to mention Chang'an, even the people in Shudi, Yangzhou, have also aroused heated discussions because these two newspapers have been distributed locally.
In general, the Wannian Daily prevailed, as he also enumerated the local forms, introducing the three prefectures of Qin, Yuan, and Anle, and the topography of Qiguande. These three states and seven passes are all on the current dividing line between the Tang Dynasty and Tubo, as long as they are recovered, it will be of great benefit to the defense of Tubo in the future.
In particular, Yuanzhou relied on several passes, when Yuanzai, that is, the great traitor Yuanzai, did not do good things, once planned, with Yuanzhou as the center, relying on several passes around him, to form a defense system mainly against Tibet, secondary to the Uighurs, but unfortunately failed to take shape. However, it can also be seen from this that those passes are important for defense, as long as they are withdrawn, even if Tubo is strong and makes a comeback in the future, the Tang Dynasty will be afraid of Tubo.
These two newspapers are also quite sophisticated, knowing that no amount of talk can shake the decision-making of the imperial court, but they still use the excuse to stir up topics and increase sales. Ah Xiang folded up the two newspapers, and as the chief writer of the newspaper, Ah Xiang read the two newspapers every day, which has become her habit.
In contrast, we are too bland, delayed until now to announce the recovery of Victoria, Brother Tiger how pitiful they are, desperately alive, but nothing good, only now announced, the degree of surprise has been diluted by this news. What is Uncle ~ thinking? ’
'Hey, the more you talk, the more you don't talk, big head. If you are told to change your words, you will not listen. Ah Xiang patted the female ** next to her hand, and saw that this woman was dressed in a strong suit, her hair was pulled up high, and she looked capable, living out of the future, and she looked like a white-collar beauty, "I'm not a big head, where are people big now, and the last time I saw my uncle, he also wanted us to call him that." ’
'Alright, alright, Yining, Ningning, is this okay? I don't like people to call you big, and you have changed your temperament, like a little girl. ''Whoever is a little girl, a little girl will not run away to a distant country.'' ''You're really going to go so far.'' Of course I have to go, but I have been grinding for a long time, uncle, no, the saint agrees. ’
You love money so much, you have made so much money, and now you haven't even married, and if you don't get married quickly, you won't be able to marry in the future. ’
"If you don't marry, you won't marry, what's the big deal, besides, I don't love money, I just love the process of making money, don't say I'm like a money fan, don't talk about me, Brother Tiger is going to come back, and when the time comes, you..." ’
In this wave, the left army of Shence returned to Chang'an. The recovery of Victoria did not cause any splashes, and Xiaohu didn't think they should boast, after all, they really didn't fight any big battles, but they just set off two big fireworks, and the Tubo people surrendered. It felt as if they were going to Shuzhong to recruit soldiers.
In fact, this is also a misunderstanding, Li Chen used Xiaohu to do some things, for example, he took the opportunity to rectify the finances of the east and west rivers, and took advantage of the opportunity of a court soldier and horse to suppress the border, Li Chen took the opportunity to let the two rivers make the envoys and rectify the situation in the area they are responsible for.
Some local wealthy families who did not cooperate, saw the opportunity quickly, saw the wind and steered, and gave up their greedy behavior of taxing one-third of an acre of land, and some stupidly, or slowly, or luckily, or even did not take the court in their eyes at all, were all cleaned up.
Fifty gods have taken down the Baide Xichuan army, but it is not that Xiaohu has nothing to do, but deliberately causing trouble. It's just a show of force.
In such a situation, the left army of Shence returned to Chang'an, and they would repair here for a period of time to see how the local envoys and the Tubo people reacted, and if the Tubo people reacted violently, they would be the situation, to see if they were to go up to the front to block the Tubo attack, or immediately join the Chang'an defense system.
'I'm tired, this Chang'an is too hot, it's not worse than Shu at all, I thought Shu was very hot. Chu Er was in the shade of the tree, sticking out his tongue, Wei Da was next to him, he was also tired and panting, he wanted to sit down, but was stopped by Chu Er, "You can't sit, don't say that sitting down is not good for your body, and the military order is not allowed." ’
I regret joining the army a little, I'm so tired that I can't sit down, and I'm so tired that I'm leaning against the wall. Wei Da complained, "If you have the strength to complain, you can see that you are not tired enough." Chu Er said with a smile, "When you were training outside Jinguan City, you were so tired that you didn't even have the strength to complain." Also, I remember not knowing who said that as long as you can eat enough every day, you are willing to die of exhaustion. ’
At this time, two soldiers came with large vats, 'Come and drink some salt water, everybody has to drink.' Followed by the barrel-carrying soldiers, and a number of captains. Wei Da moved over with great difficulty, took a cup from the soldier in charge, poured a few large mouthfuls of salt water, and felt more comfortable.
Chu Er didn't move, it wasn't his team, and he also saw that his team was the captain and asked people to carry the bucket over.
It's a pity that it's rare to come to Chang'an, but it's a pity that we can't look around. After drinking the water, Wei Da had the spirit, "Why don't my family be registered in Guanzhong, if so, we can also get half a month's leave." ’
After returning to Chang'an, the soldiers whose household registration was in Guanzhong were given half a month's vacation and could go home to visit their relatives. After that, the whole army fell into a hot training again, because it was possible to go to the battlefield at any time, so this time Xiaohu and they had to train this group of soldiers to the death, and those soldiers were miserable.
If I have a half-month holiday, I would like to go to the racecourse, I heard that it is very lively. If I can make enough money, I will go home and buy land and become a landlord. What about you, where do you want to go? Otherwise, let's go and bet on horses together. "Don't go, I have time, I want to go to the library to see, it is worthy of Chang'an, there is even this kind of place for people to read books for free." ’
'It's rare to come to Chang'an, do you read any books, but fortunately, I didn't look for you to gamble. Wei Da thought in pieces, as soon as he was empty recently, he became a lot, "You say, if I make money, can I go home and get a racetrack?" Ai, why don't you speak. Wei Da nagged for a long time, and found that his little friends were no longer talking, so he turned his head to look at him.
'Because you're bored, you don't have anything to say. Chu took a booklet in the second hand and was reading it carefully, "You are still looking at that, you are looking at it so seriously, and you don't want to take the top prize." Wei Da was not angry and said, "I said that what kind of literacy class I run, I have nothing to do at all, I have so much time, how good it is to play football and sleep." ’
"Reading is very interesting, I didn't have that condition at home before, but now I can't afford to have this opportunity, and besides, you didn't listen to the captain that you read a lot, and you will have a chance to be promoted to general in the future." ''Promote general, I don't expect it.'' Wei Da suddenly fell silent, "You say, are we really going to go to war?" ’
This is not only Wei Da worried, but also many recruits are worried, although they did not disclose it, but they also know that they are likely to really go on an expedition, to a place thousands of miles away from home, maybe many people will be buried there.
'Attention all. Seeing that everyone had finished drinking the water, the captain shouted loudly. In an instant, everyone's eyes saw their captain.
In June, Jingyuan Jiedu enabled Kang Jirong to recover six passes, including Fuzhou and Shimen. July 6th. The Lingwu Festival made Zhu Shuming recover Anle Prefecture. On the thirteenth, Zhang Junxu was made to recover Xiaoguan (now southeast of Ningxia Tongxin). On the twenty-third day, Fengxiang Jiedu made Li Wei recover Qinzhou. At the same time, Zhao Zhang Junxu moved his army to Ningzhou and was ready to respond to Hexi at any time.
At this moment, the left army of Shence also marched to Wonju. Because the Tubo people have not reacted so far, which is completely in line with the original prediction, the Tubo people are too busy to take care of themselves, so their original defense task was handed over to the Suining army.
They will go to the front line for further training, and at any time be ready to launch a battle to reclaim Longxid. (To be continued.) )