At this time, it was already the early summer of the first year of the Great Song Dynasty, and on the shore of the vast Bohai Sea, the eyes were anxious to see a piece of emerald green. Under the warm climate and a few spring rains, the crops on both sides of the Haihe River are growing quite well. It's just that most of the owners of these crops have been forced to leave their homes and concentrate on the construction site of Tanggu City, the mouth of the Haihe River.

More than 50,000 people, including the brothers Niccolò and Matteo, have fallen from hell in the past month, losing their possessions and jobs, and becoming proletarians with almost nothing. Most of the able-bodied men had to work on the construction site in Tanggu City in exchange for food to feed their families and themselves. The brothers Niccolò and Matteo, who are said to be able to make glass, were also assigned to a "people's battalion", guarded by a platoon of Northern Expeditionary Army, who dug trenches on the construction site in the southern city of Tanggu.

It's finally time for lunch, and it's time for the people to rest. Although Chen Dexing deprived these people of their freedom, he did not intend to use them as "disposable" tools. The population of North China in this era is too precious! It is so precious that Chen Dexing, a soul who grew up in the era of "large population", can not even imagine.

According to the information provided by Li Pu, the registered population of the entire northern Han region is only more than 7 million! It's not the hukou, it's the population! The scope of the northern Han land is probably the six provinces of Shandong, Henan, Shaanxi, Shaanxi (excluding Hanzhong City), Hebei and Gansu, as well as the two cities of Beijing and Tianjin, as well as Xuzhou City in Jiangsu Province and Huaibei Region in Anhui!

On such a large piece of land, the population is only more than 7 million! Of course, this is the book number. Actually, it's definitely a little more, estimated at more than 10 million. It is several million less than the permanent population of Tianjin in later generations!

And it is the industrial and agricultural production supported by such a small population. But it made the northern part of Han the most economically developed region within the Great Mongol Empire! Historically, Kublai Khan relied on the support of tens of millions of people. defeated Ali Buge, became the co-ruler of the Great Mongolian State, and went south to attack the Song Dynasty, completely breaking off the unification of the Han family.

Become the first person in history to destroy China!

At this time when Chen Dexing, a Han nationalist bandit who resisted the unification of the four seas and ethnic integration, led his troops to plunder both sides of the Haihe River, Kublai Khan's population was definitely less than 10 million, and it was necessary to subtract nearly 3 million people controlled by Yidu Li Pu and his allies, and more than 1 million Henan people controlled by Shi Tianze and others who had an unclear attitude, as well as more than 1 million people in Shaanxi, Gongchang and Western Xia's homeland, which were to be ceded to Ali Buge. I am afraid that the rest is less than 5 million, and now thousands of them have been killed by Chen Dexing (mainly Semu soldiers). robbed 50,000, which was enough to make Kublai Khan feel distressed for a while - historically, Kublai Khan did not implement a large-scale genocidal policy in Jiangnan, which is estimated to be related to the fact that the population of the north is called Genghis Khan and Ogedai killed too much. The population is too small, the wealth is naturally less, and the great Mongolian Khan is actually bitter these days, and he has a headache for a few small money all day long......

And Chen Dexing now also cherishes the tens of thousands of people he grabbed with great difficulty...... It only takes a few seconds to kill a living person who is capable of productive labor, whereas to produce such a living person. At least ten years! It's not okay not to cherish some.

Therefore, these people who built the city for Chen Dexing were provided with enough food, providing three meals a day. And it was supplied according to the food standards of the Northern Expeditionary Army. Every laborer working on the construction site is guaranteed to receive 24 taels of flour as a staple food, as well as a small amount of meat and kimchi. In addition, a family meal will be distributed after work every day. Let them take it back and feed the family.

As for the place where these people rested at night, it was a shack built in the north and south of Tanggu. It's windy, it's rainy, it's rainy. Anyone who has a family. All live with their families. However, the slaves who were sent to slavery were still not allowed to live with their families—the women and children were taken hostage, and their families were executed whenever the slaves escaped!

Needless to say, all the people and slaves were organized into "labor camps" and worked and lived under the militarized management of the Northern Expeditionary Army.

For such an encounter, both the Han people and the Semu people complained bitterly. Their good life was completely destroyed by Chen Dexing, a thief! Now they're forced to do heavy work that they don't even want to do. I don't know where I'm going to be held hostage in the future. If they are allowed to come and go freely, even if the Han people are allowed to come and go freely, I am afraid that in less than a day, they will run back to Kublai Khan's side, right?

After all, they were accustomed to Mongol rule, and their homeland was there.

In a sense, Hao Jing and Liu Xiaoyuan's views are not wrong, the Han people in the north have accepted the order brought by the Mongols, and they will not resist when they can survive. Because...... Those who dared to resist were killed by the Mongols!

Therefore, no one dares to resist Chen Dexing, who seems to be more barbaric than the Mongols. They can only endure the new order brought by Chen Dexing, and they can also survive.

At this time, Chen Dexing put on his armor, followed by the guards and Zhao Fu, and circled among the people who were dining. Each "people's battalion" became its own food unit, and it sat around the field pot stove to eat there. Although the food was good, everyone was sad. Seeing the majestic His Royal Highness King Ming, he unconsciously lowered his head, and his face showed an expression of fear.

Chen Dexing sighed to Zhao Fu with his hands behind his back: "Xing, the people are bitter; Death, the people suffer. That's true! ”

"Xing, the people are bitter; Death, the people are bitter ......" Zhao Fu frowned slightly, he had never heard of this - this is the heartfelt words of Zhang Yanghao, a bureaucrat of the Yuan Dynasty, who has not yet been born.

"O king, he who is a king cannot have the kindness of a woman." Zhao Fu said lightly, "And it's nothing for the Han'er in the north to be bitter, with tens of millions of people to raise hundreds of thousands of Mongolian tigers and wolves, hundreds of thousands of accomplices and hundreds of thousands of Han Hou soldiers, almost seven people have to raise one officer and soldier, how can you not be bitter?" They have long been accustomed to it, and what they can't stand is either going to the Southern Dynasty or being killed by the Mongols. But what about the Southern Dynasties? Isn't it the same suffering? If a mortal wants to get ahead, he must first endure hardships, and only then can he become a master! The Han people in the north want to change from a third-class Han to a first-class Han, and hardships are inevitable! So, the king doesn't have to mind. ”

Mind Huai will not, Chen Dexing was originally a traitor, in order to prevent the Great Mongolia from unifying China, he did everything he could, and naturally he would not care about the Han people in the north to suffer more.

"Is there a plan for resettlement?" Chen Dexing smiled noncommittally and asked about the arrangements for the 50,000 people here after they arrived in Liaodong.

These arrangements were made by the government officials who followed Chen Dexing to the mouth of the Haihe River, but Zhao Fu, a judge of the foreign affairs department, was also involved.

"Already." Zhao Fu said, "According to the investigation of the Intelligence Department, the land south of Jinzhou's Great Black Mountain has a radius of 300 miles, and there are about 400,000 acres of arable land. ”

The number jù that Zhao Fu said was the number on the accounts of the Jinzhou Mansion of the Jin Kingdom, and Chen Dexing had long regarded the original Jinzhou land of the Jin Kingdom as his base camp. Naturally, Liu Yang was asked to investigate. This Liu Yang had a lively brain, and did not go to Jinzhou to check on the spot, but went straight to Yanjing to spend money to buy off the scribe of Yanjing Zhulu Xingshang Shufu Yamen, and went directly to the treasury to check the information left by Jinguo, and also copied a copy of the important information related to Tokyo Road and Shangjing Road. The 400,000 acres of cultivated land are from the materials left behind by the Jin State.

"Among them, 30 acres are ready to be divided into 1,000 Zhuangzi." Zhao Fu continued, "These Zhuangzi were assigned to the officers and soldiers of the Northern Expeditionary Army. The remaining 100,000 acres of land will be distributed to 3,000 farmers, who also need to rent a certain amount of farmland. ”

"3,000 peasant households get 100,000 mu of land...... Chen Dexing pondered for a moment and said with a smile. Each household can get more than 33 acres, and it also needs to rent 100 acres of farmland, totaling 133 acres...... It's tiring enough. ”

"The north is different from the south of the Yangtze River," Zhao Fu said with a smile, "Now the north is less people and more land, and the farmers raise more livestock, not all the land is cultivated, but the grass field is rotated, and the rich families also use cattle and horses to cultivate, so it is not so tiring to plant." ”

"I see." Chen Dexing nodded.

It turns out that the administrative secretary of the Northland Recruitment Division has formulated a "Household Registration System for the Recruitment Division", which will divide the households of the subordinate people, in principle, a couple and extremely minor children are one household, and only the eldest son and eldest daughter-in-law can be combined with the elders in the family into one household. In fact, it is necessary to break up the big clans and implement small households.

At the same time, the "Solicitation and Granting of Land System" is also being formulated to make the compulsory allocation of land to unemployed households. Of course, it was not only the land that was forcibly allocated, but also the obligation to lease samurai estates! According to this "land grant system", all men who are at least 18 years old, Han nationality, unemployed, have no land (less than 20 acres of land under their name), and have not joined the army or studied in various academies and schools recognized by the Recruitment Division, and are in good health, will be compulsorily granted land, and at the same time will be assigned to rent a farm!

Of course, the land rent and land tax are very low, and the land rent is exempted from tax for the first three years of land acquisition and the grange lease, and the tax is halved in the fourth and fifth years. In addition, the Recruitment Division will also provide a set of farming tools and two ploughing horses free of charge. If the man is not married, the Counsellors will also help with personal problems.

In fact, this set of "land granting system" is to solve the problem of unmanned cultivation of "granges", after all, those soldiers named by Chen Dexing have to serve in the army for a long time, and it is impossible to go back to farming.

And the land must be planted, and the scholars must also get the land. Huang Zhishen, Zhao Fu, Ren Yijiang and others came up with such a trick of dividing the land and apportionment, temporarily binding some households who did not want to join the army to fight, but just wanted to live in peace and stability on the land! (To be continued......)