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In addition, Ma Chao got another important news, Ma Teng had already received a reward from the imperial court, and the official was Zuo Zhonglang General, reinstated the hereditary Marquis of Xinxi, and was planning to go to Luoyang to take up his post. But he couldn't bear to give away the hard-earned foundation, so he urgently recruited Ma Chao to go back to discuss countermeasures.

Ma Chao frowned slightly, he was against Ma Teng's entry into Beijing, but if Ma Teng did not enter Beijing, he would definitely be suspicious of Liu Hong, although he couldn't do anything to him, but he wouldn't be reused for him. Besides, the state pastoral system is about to be implemented, if Ma Teng does not enter Beijing, it is no problem for him to continue to be a Wei general, but it is difficult to shepherd a state and mix a state pastor.

Now Ma Chao has no shortage of soldiers, if he takes over the 60,000 Xiliang elite soldiers under Ma Teng, and recruits another 50,000 troops in Bingzhou, plus the 20,000 elite troops stationed in the Southern Xiongnu and the 20,000 cavalry of the Southern Xiongnu who can be mobilized at any time, he can now use as many as 150,000 troops. This kind of strength is only weaker than Dong Zhuo's 200,000 elite soldiers in the world, and the princes of other places are still only making small fights, far from becoming a climate, and the left and right Yulin troops stationed in Luoyang are only 50,000.

But if there are many soldiers, if there is no war, it will be troublesome, and the cost of 150,000 troops is an astronomical amount. According to the calculation that 20 people eat one hu rice a day, 150,000 people a year is 2.7 million hu rice. In addition to military rations, if the military salary is calculated at 2,000 yuan per month, it will be 300 million yuan a year, not counting the salaries of middle and high-ranking generals and the pensions of the families of fallen soldiers.

Looking at their own territory, needless to say, Xiliang, Wuwei and other counties, poor mountains and bad waters, barren people, the only remaining local people can't eat, how can they ask for food again? Shangdang County is an area seriously damaged by the Yellow Turban Rebellion, and the grain produced can feed an army of 20,000 or 30,000 at most, and its self-sufficiency is still insufficient. Dong Zhuo sits on the four counties of Xiliang and the rich land of Qinchuan for eight hundred miles in Guanzhong, and a huge piece of land has to be squeezed by the people to feed an army of 200,000, and it is already the limit!

The master knew that firewood, rice, oil and salt were expensive, Ma Chao's heart was fluctuating, and there were only two roads in front of him; The first is to take over a piece of grain production land as soon as possible, not only to ensure the continuity of grain, grass and military salaries, but also to hoard a large amount of grain within two years; The second is to completely abandon the land of Xiliang County, and start with 50,000 horses and 20,000 elite soldiers on the grassland.

Ma Chao is also difficult to choose for a while, mainly depends on Ma Teng's meaning, if Ma Teng insists on going to Luoyang, then he can only give up Xiliang completely. Anyway, those counties are sandwiched between Dong Zhuo and Han Sui, don't do it!

More than 200,000 people traveled in a roundabout way, and finally approached the palace Dazhai in the second day, and Pang De, Wang Shuang, and Yang Yuan, who had been waiting for a long time, as well as the Xiongnu magnates Tian Hukang, Khan, and Tuobiko, all came out. Several people had already received the news and started to prepare, so they were not surprised by the crowd that was oppressed by the black.

Before the Southern Xiongnu rebellion, there were also many Xiongnu magnates and Han people on the grassland to cooperate in Tuntian, the scale of which was quite small, and the labor force was Han slaves plundered from the border, and there were also foreign slaves such as Wuheng and Xianbei. Therefore, although the Xiongnu people have antipathy to the Han people to come to Tuntian, but the resistance is not big, on the contrary, if those lands are not cultivated, it will be really troublesome, although the Southern Xiongnu still live by grazing since returning to the Han Dynasty, but because they have lived with the Han people for a long time, their living habits have long been different, and they are inseparable from food at all.

The resettlement of 25 displaced people at once is a time-consuming and laborious task, not an overnight effort. Ma Chao has already determined the general direction after many inquiries, and as for the specific implementation, he does not need to do it personally.

There are three major plains in this area of the Hetao area, which are distributed on both sides and the middle zone of the horizontal side of the Yellow River, which are called the Yinchuan Plain, the Qiantao Plain and the Houtao Plain in later generations. During the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, three cities were established on the three plains: Shuofang, Jiuyuan and Yunzhong. Although the city is deserted today, the land on these three plains has been cultivated since the Xiongnu descended to the Han Dynasty, and the water conservancy facilities are perfect, and they are all fertile land for drought and flood protection.

After temporarily placing more than 200,000 displaced people on the periphery of the royal court, Ma Chao summoned Li Yan, Yang Yuan, Zheng Gu, Tao Sheng, Yang Feng, Wang Shuang, Pang De and the Southern Xiongnu who had just risen to power. After three days of discussions, the high-level leaders carefully compared the land division and the actual situation, and after careful consideration, they finally worked out a set of feasible plans.

It was decided that Yang Feng should lead his subordinates to the Yinchuan Plain in the Shuofang region, Tao Sheng would go to the Qiantao Plain in the Jiuyuan region, and Zhenggu would cross the river to the Houtao Plain in the Yunzhong region. At the same time, the three-way army was sent to join the Hun cavalry to clear the field first, because of the rebellion of the Southern Huns and the massacre of the Ma Chaoxi Liang army in advance, now this area has almost become a no-man's land, but there is still food in the field that has not been harvested, it is inevitable to attract some scattered people, and the displaced people come to pick up the cheap.

After Pang De, Wang Shuang, and Ma Dai each led an army to set off, Li Yan and Yang Yuan were also responsible for distributing livestock and grain. These displaced people have only enough food to survive the winter, and each person has to be given at least half a year's ration. Ma Chao also could not distribute the full amount, stipulating that regardless of men, women, and children, each person could receive one hui of rice rations per month, and each person could receive six hui of wheat or five hui of corn.

In fact, one pound of coarse rice per person per month is not enough to eat, unless they drink porridge every day, but there are still many grains in the land of the Southern Xiongnu that have not had time to be harvested in the autumn after maturity, as long as they are not afraid of hard work and are willing to brave the cold to harvest, not only will they not starve, but there is even surplus grain.

As for the livestock, it is divided according to the household, and each household can receive two cows, a horse, and ten sheep, and half of the litters are handed over each year, and after ten years, they will be owned by the individual. This is a win-win deal, cattle, horses and sheep can produce three litters in two years, and ten years can earn up to seven cows, three horses, and thirty sheep, and they can be doubled without caring about anything.

For bachelors, the problem of partners is immediately solved, and it is mandatory that bachelors in the prime of life must marry a wife, and widows and middle-aged people must continue to form a new family. This time, there were more than 50,000 women of childbearing age who were brought in from Wuheng and Xianbei, and instead of letting them consume food every day, it was better to send it out early to increase the population and labor force.

Don't underestimate these more than 50,000 women, it is not a problem for a woman to have two children in five years, and in 20 years, it will be 100,000 young men and women, and Ma Chao is only 32 years old, which just benefits. And pacifying the country may not be possible within 20 years, and Ma Chao's ambition is not only the Central Plains, of course, the more people, the better.

There is no need to worry about the problem of housing, there must be a village where there is land, three months ago there were people living in it, now people are running and dying, and the village is also empty, and they can move in after tidying up, which is better than them nesting in the valley and living in a cave.

One of the most difficult to deal with was the division of land, Ma Chaowei promulgated a series of policies, and strictly ordered that individuals were not allowed to gather in the fields, whether Xiongnu or Han, and found that a whole family was reduced to slavery to mine.

First of all, a certain population is arranged in each village, and then the nearby land is measured, and divided equally according to the current population, regardless of birth, old age, sickness and death for ten years, but new land can be developed, and the new land developed is temporarily owned by individuals. After 10 years, the population will be counted, all the land will be recovered, including the newly developed land, and then it will be divided equally, and it will remain unchanged for another 10 years! In the same decade, the newly developed land remains owned by the individual, and so on until the next decade.

Ma Chao also made innovations in taxation, first of all, he abolished the fixed grain paid per mu by the Han Dynasty, and changed it to a three-point grain system, that is, 30 percent of the income can be paid. In this way, not only can the people be mobilized to actively take the surname, but also ensure that the people have a way to live in the disaster year, otherwise once the disaster year occurs, the food produced by the people is not enough to pay the share of food, and the people will naturally rebel if they have no food to eat.

At the same time, a series of reduction and exemption policies were also announced, such as those who have strong men in their families who join the army can be permanently exempted from paying a penny; Those who have family members who have died in the army are exempt from taxes for five years; If there is a woman in the family who marries a soldier, half of the tax is exempted. Similarly, in the case of deserters and rebel families, the land should be recovered and reduced to slavery to participate in the military cantonment.

Also receiving this benefit were some Xiongnu who were willing to go to Tuntian, including some Han Chinese who had been enslaved in the Southern Xiongnu steppe, and Ma Chao gave them families to become local people, and had the same treatment as the displaced people. In order to assimilate the Xiongnu and speed up the pace of ethnic integration, Ma Chao also greatly encouraged the children of the two ethnic groups to marry, and in the future, if the newly formed family is Han and the other is the Xiongnu, they can enjoy two and a half cents of taxes.

After settling the displaced people, Ma Chao set about establishing a slave camp for military tuntian, and designated the land near the royal court as a military tuntian area. The prisoners and slaves were mainly supervised by the sergeants, and these people were like the prisoners in the prisons of later generations, and all captured prisoners were forced to serve three years of hard labor, and those who performed well and worked actively could be promoted to civilians, otherwise they could only continue to serve hard labor, and they were evaluated every three years.

A series of policies won the hearts of the people at that time, and this kind of preferential policy can be described as unprecedented! Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty encouraged the people to go to Hetao Tuntian, but they did not receive such a high salary, and even the problems of food and marriage were solved. Ma Chao believes that once the news reaches the Central Plains, many displaced people will come to defect.

Ma Chao is also doing this to advertise and establish prestige. In that year, Shang Ying changed the law and set up a wooden pole, clearly saying that he could receive ten gold from the south of the city to the north of the city, and its purpose was to establish credibility and unify the government decree. There are more than a million Montenegrin thieves, but only 200,000 came, and the reason is that most people don't believe in Ma Chao's series of policies, because there has never been an official in the world who gave food and livestock to the people, let alone helped to form a family.

As long as you can establish supreme prestige, there will naturally be a steady stream of people coming to vote. The Hetao area has convenient water conservancy, fertile land and abundant mineral resources, and is in need of a large number of laborers to develop. But I am afraid that it will be difficult to distribute grain and livestock, but it is no problem to send a wife, there are still more than 20,000 of the 50,000 Wuheng and Xianbei women who have just been plundered, and there are 30,000 or 40,000 Xiongnu women in Xiliang, which is enough to attract a large number of displaced people.