Chapter VIII Emigration and Troops: Garrisoning Frontiers and Strengthening Border Defenses
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If you want to get rich, you must first build roads, Xu Qing first organized manpower to build avenues from the governor's mansion to the counties, and then built avenues connecting the two adjacent counties, and then built roads from the county to the township and from the township to the township, and it is best to build a small road connecting the village with the village. After the road was repaired, it not only facilitated the travel of the people, but also promoted the circulation of goods, thereby promoting economic development, and was conducive to the rapid mobilization of the Tang army and the rapid suppression of the rebellion. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
The Han Chinese settlement areas were built on uncultivated wasteland, and did not compete with the former Goguryeo and the former Baekje people for land. In the Han immigration areas, there were as few as 10,000 young and middle-aged people, and as many as 50,000 young and middle-aged people, and they set up militia organizations and received training and leadership from Xu Jiajun. The militia works in agriculture when it is busy and trains when it is not working.
Xu Jiajun exercised military control over the former Goguryeo and former Baekje regions, and dominated the administrative management, and the chief and adjutant of each prefecture and county government had to report to the governors of each prefecture. There were five prefectures in the former Baekje region and nine prefectures in the former Goguryeo region.
Xu Qing was awarded the title of Duke of Andong and the Protector of the Anton Metropolitan Protectorate by the Tang Emperor for his meritorious service in the war, and the Anton Metropolitan Protectorate who retreated to Liaodong Province was abolished due to the inability to exercise its functions, and the 20,000 officers and soldiers of the original Anton Metropolitan Protectorate were transferred to the garrison of the Liaodong Border Pass. Xu Qing sent 3,000 men to each of the 14 prefectures under his jurisdiction, Pyongyang was guarded by 10,000 troops and personal guards, and South Pyongyang, Xiongjin City, and Kuba City were each sent 5,000 troops to defend it. Xue Rengui returned to Pyongyang and served as Xu Qing's deputy, responsible for the day-to-day management of the Andong Metropolitan Protectorate.
Xu Qing's main focus was on negotiations with Silla, immigration to the former Goguryeo and former Baekje regions, and the development of agriculture, industry, and commerce, as well as trade with the Tang mainland.
The business of Daetang Trading Company and Yongmen Dart Bureau was no longer limited to Xiongjin City and Pyongyang, but expanded to all the prefectures and counties of the former Goguryeo and former Baekje regions that were included in the territory of Datang.
Xianghe Qianzhuang also conducts financial business in the four major cities of Pyongyang, South Pyongyang, Xiongjin and Kupa. Considering that radical anti-Tang elements carried out assassinations and sabotage incidents from time to time, the law and order situation in the former Goguryeo and former Baekje areas was still worrying, and Xu Qing set up Xianghe Qianzhuang in the governor's palace. After the establishment of the Pyongyang branch of Xianghe Qianzhuang, Wang Meihui came to Pyongyang at the invitation of Xu Qing, and under Xu Qing's care, he set up Xianghe Qianzhuang in the heavily guarded Andong Metropolitan Protectorate.
There were more than 60,000 Tang troops who controlled the former Goguryeo and the former Baekje region, and they were distributed to nearly 200 counties in Goguryeo and Baekje, and each county could be divided into 300 Tang troops. The defense forces of the Han settlement areas before the militia formed a fighting force came from the Longmen Dart Bureau and the Datang Trading Company.
In winter, the civilian population and prisoners of war were used to build water conservancy, roads, cities, and public facilities. The peasants harvested grain and cotton, and the Datang Trading Company purchased them at a reasonable price, and the peasants earned money and had money to buy things, which promoted consumption and promoted economic development.
In order to create conditions for the former Goguryeo and former Baekje girls who are willing to marry the Tang Dynasty soldiers and live a good life, and also to create opportunities for the unmarried young men among the employees of the Datang Army, the Datang Trading Company and the Longmen Dart Bureau to get to know the former Goguryeo and the former Baekje girls, the Xujia Army Headquarters and the governor's offices often organize activities such as military friendship, the army going to the countryside to support farmers, and the army going to the countryside to patrol.
The girls of the former Goguryeo and the former Baekje area are all good at singing and dancing, and the unmarried boys of the Tang Dynasty are all good men, and the young unmarried men and women have a very happy party together, exchanging names and contact information on the spot. After they have been dating for a certain period of time, the wedding ceremony and the bride price of the man to the woman's parents are paid by Xianghe Qianzhuang.
The Tang Dynasty soldiers who married the former Goguryeo and the former Baekje girls will stay on the Korean Peninsula for a long time as border soldiers, serving in the border army for at least five years, and after retiring from the army, they will become militiamen who reclaim the barren tuntian in the former Goguryeo and former Baekje regions. After five years of serving as a militiaman, they can choose to return to their hometowns or choose to stay on the Korean Peninsula. The Tang Dynasty, the Andong Protectorate, the Governor's Office, and the military all welcomed the soldiers who brought their parents and relatives to the Korean Dou Island, and increased the proportion of Han Chinese in the border areas, which was conducive to the tranquility of the border.
To this end, the Andong Metropolitan Protectorate, the Headquarters, the Governor's Office, and the prefecture and county governments jointly issued a document stipulating that the descendants of Han people who intermarried with the former Goguryeo and the former Baekje must be Han Chinese, and if they violated, they would be sentenced to five years of hard labor for both husband and wife, and half of the family property and half of the land property would be confiscated.
The main business of Datang Trading Company is trade, in order to promote the circulation of goods, promote the development of commerce, and thus drive the development of the economy, Xu Qing established the Pyongyang Branch of Datang Commercial Company in Pyongyang, with Zhao Tuoyong as the shopkeeper, and established Datang Commercial Company in Youzhou, with Cui Meng as the shopkeeper - Xu Qing took a young and beautiful unmarried captive, the former Baekje County Lord Fuyu Cai was cautious to Cui Meng, and the tense relationship with Cui Meng was improved, Cui Meng is Xu Qing's eldest brother, and he is also the number one person in the original Black Wind Ridge Group, Xu Qing is in the season of employment, It's time to reuse Cui Meng.
Xu Qing established the Chang'an branch of Datang Commercial Company in Chang'an, and the position of shopkeeper was temporarily concurrently held by He Changjie. The Pyongyang branch of the Datang Commercial Company hired a large number of former Goguryeo and former Baekje girls who were married to Datang soldiers and their families.
The Tang Dynasty usually implements the government military system, and only temporarily compulsorily conscripts it in the event of large-scale wars. At the time of the war, the military department was ordered by the emperor to recruit the central standing army and the government soldiers of the Zhichong Prefecture in various places without objection from the prime minister, and the government soldiers of the Zhichong Prefecture were mainly composed of the children of landlords and the children of rich peasants and middle peasants.
The only exception to this was the war launched by Tang Gaozong to conquer Goguryeo and Baekje, because of the high proportion of casualties, no one was willing to go to the Korean front to fight, the children of landlords and rich peasants spent money to find connections to avoid military service, and the soldiers who participated in the war were mainly the children of middle peasants and poor peasants. After the end of the war, the central standing army returned to the capital, and the government soldiers of the prefecture returned to their hometowns, what they did before, and what they did after returning home.
The combat effectiveness of the Tang Dynasty army was recognized by the world, and the Tang army's armor and weapons were also well-made, but the Tang court was unwilling to bear heavy military expenditures, and the Tang court stipulated that the soldiers of the Zhichong Prefecture should spend their own money to buy clothes, armor and bows. This rule is very surprising, but there are still many people who are willing to serve in the army.
Because the army of the Tang Dynasty had a good military merit system and a lord system. Soldiers can be promoted to officers for military merit, or they can be awarded knighthood, and they can be assigned to fertile land when they return to their hometowns after the war. Fields are the lifeblood of farmers, and with a certain amount of fertile land, a family can live a good life.
Since the Tang Dynasty court was so stingy and so mean to the soldiers, the treatment of the Tang soldiers who participated in the rebellion in the former Goguryeo and Baekje regions was not as high, and it was unrealistic to expect to live a good life on military salaries. Unlike the Han Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty did not carry out large-scale garrisons to consolidate the land occupied by means of war, but instead adopted a policy of sending troops to guard the occupied areas in turn and appointing local magnates who submitted to the Tang Dynasty as officials.
The Tang Dynasty in the middle of the Tang Dynasty, before Wu Zetian's rebellion, reached the largest territory in China, east to Korea, south to Vietnam, north to the Arctic Ocean, west to the Caspian Sea, occupied the whole of Afghanistan, most of Pakistan and most of Central Asia, and was able to interfere in the internal affairs of Persia (now Iran) to help the Persians resist the invasion of the Arab Empire.
However, the Tang Dynasty did not immigrate a large number of people to the occupied areas, and implemented the policy of a large number of troops to garrison the frontiers, and after Wu Zetian rebelled, the party fought with the Li Tang royal family, resulting in a serious decline in the national strength and military strength of the Tang Dynasty, the Tubo, Korea, Eastern Turks, Western Turks, and Khitans who were originally subordinated to the Tang Dynasty rebelled against the Tang Dynasty, and the Arab Empire rose strongly, and snatched the territory occupied by the Tang Dynasty for only a few decades in the Western Regions, and half of the Tang Dynasty was lost.
When Tang Xuanzong Li Longji was in the so-called Kaiyuan Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty never got the territories of Khitan, Korea, Turks, and Tibet, not even surrendered, let alone after the Anshi Rebellion.
As a future person who understands the history of the Tang Dynasty, Xu Qing is well aware of the importance of immigrants and troops to garrison the frontier after the occupation of new land. Since the Tang Dynasty did not have this policy, and only cared about fighting wars and ignoring post-war governance, Xu Qing did these two things for the Tang Dynasty court.
As a future person who has lived in the era of market economy for more than 20 years, Xu Qing also knows the importance of the economy, and only by making a profit on the economy of the occupied areas can he support the huge expenses of immigrants and military garrisons, and can he turn the occupied areas into permanent territory of the Tang Dynasty.
Xu Qingjiang married a former Goguryeo or former Baekje girl, and according to the agreement, the service period of the Tang Dynasty active soldier who should be in the Tuntian border was extended to five years, and during his service, considering that he had formed a new family and his military salary was not enough to support the family, he referred to the welfare benefits of the employees of the Datang Trading Company to make up for the salary gap and arrange a decent job for the military wife.
Xu Qing's policy was particularly attractive to Korean girls who had always been poor, and there were more and more Korean girls who were willing to marry the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty stationed in the former Goguryeo and former Baekje regions, as well as the employees of the Datang Trading Company and the Longmen Dart Bureau.
Xu Qing was happy about this.
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